The Incubator – Skokie

I had the pleasure of going to the open house for The Incubator at their shiny new Skokie location. Yes, this is an incubator which hatches new businesses. So this is the place to go if you have that great idea that will make you the next billionaire. The Evanston location of the incubator attracted more software and web businesses. The science park here is filled with companies in the physical sciences so I would expect many of the spinoffs will be more related to companies in that arena. One of the selling points is they offer a full wet lab at their disposal. This is good if you are a small company and want to get a government research project and need to demonstrate acceptable lab capabilities.
They are on the grounds of The Illinois Science + Technology Park which is a sprawling campus at the intersection of Skokie Road and Oakton. I noticed that Oakton Street is a little more bustling now that there is a new el station.
The director Tim is a good person to talk to and can point you in the right direction if you are a little guy starting out on your dream tech company.