North Business & Industrial Council (NORBIC) - Membership offers businesses access to valuable information, grants, networking opportunities. Western Illinois Small Business Development Center - Useful information for the area's prospective and established businesses. Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs - Agency intended to monitor conditions in rural Illinois, with the aim of improving community and economic development including education, health care, and transportation. Illinois Rural Partners - Illinois Private Public Partnership for Rural Community Development. Illinois Tax Increment Association - Offers information on the organization, learn how tax increment finance (TIF) works, what communities are using TIF and for what purposes, get the latest news and statistics on the state's TIFs and the laws under which they operate. Illinois State Chamber of Commerce - Promote the interests of business by educating and persuading policy-makers. Features issues, reports, local chapter and membership information. Better Cities Committee of Illinois - Seeks ways ways to improve the economic environment of urban areas through a fundamental fiscal reform that will lay the ground work for a more viable city. Features information on Henry George, views of and links to Georgist organizations.