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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

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In 2014, the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) brought together several experts in the education community, law enforcement and security industry to develop a comprehensive guide to safer school design. A vestibule’s ability to provide such defense is twofold.

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How to Bolster Classroom Security with Security-Rated Glazing

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This testing protocol creates challenges when a system is intended to provide multiple forms of protection, such as forced-entry resistance and defense against fire. For example, Chicago-area schools require any door along exit corridors to be fire-rated, whether or not there is an automatic sprinkler system in place.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Illinois – Strong Demand Lifts Industrial Parks In Wheeling, IL

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Rendering of the new Tin Goose Hangar, which is under construction at Chicago Executive Airport. The owners plan to invest an estimated $1 million on building improvements prior to taking occupancy. The business owners plan to invest an estimated $5,000,000 on facility improvements prior to taking occupancy. By Sharon Clark.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Points of Entry for Cash-Rich Cargo

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CHICAGO EXEC ANCHORS WHEELING. The Village of Wheeling’s manufacturing base is anchored around its general aviation airport, Chicago Executive Airport, the third busiest in Chicagoland. Chicago Executive Airport serves as a hub for business and industry and as a logical magnet drawing businesses to the area. Port of Stockton.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Louis and Chicago to the north and New Orleans to the south, while Interstate 30 connects Arkansas with markets to the southwest, including Texas and Mexico. An estimated 38.4

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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Louisiana’s capital has had great success in executing the state’s strategy of bringing together business and higher education in innovative public-private partnerships that spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors. Total investment for the combined development is estimated to be $55 million. The approximately $30.5

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Nowhere is this more evident that in the unprecedented cooperation between higher education resources and business in LA. Department of Education recently released its assessment of the progress made by recipients of Race to the Top (RTTP)?funding funding in the first three years of the program.

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