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• In 2018, there were over 1.2 million businesses in Illinois, of which more than 343 thousand were minority-owned firms.

• Minority-owned firms in Illinois employed over 324 thousand people in 2018.

• Minority-owned firms represented 28.7% of all firms located in the state.

• The number of minorityowned firms in Illinois increased 2.0% between 2017 and 2018.