The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) is launching the Job Training Economic Development Program under the Quality Jobs Pilot Program, with a funding pool of $600,000. This program seeks to partner with Local Workforce Innovation Area (LWIA) grantees to promote quality jobs in key industries such as healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, and transportation distribution logistics. The initiative focuses on staff training to identify quality jobs, support for workforce participants in industry-specific training, data collection, and analysis on job outcomes, and potentially employer supports to enhance job quality. The program aims to improve job quality and worker satisfaction while increasing industry competitiveness.