Accelerators in Illinois
36 programs. Terms, equity and the next deadline for each, checked against the official pages.
The terms
- Median check
- $47.5k
- Median equity
- 6.5%
- Open now
- 3
- Next deadline
- 30 Oct 2026
Open now
- Chain Reaction Innovations · Lemont, US · — · — · 24 months · Closes 30 Oct 2026
- Incubator Program · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Rolling admissions
- PYROS · Chicago, US · — · — · 14 weeks · Rolling admissions
Rolling or opening later
- mHUB Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Accelerator · Chicago, US · $142.5k · 6.5% · 6 months · Dates not published
- Running Start Entrepreneurship Training · Chicago, US · $3k · No equity · 16 weeks · Dates not published
- StartUp Starved Rock · Ottawa, US · $1.5k · No equity · — · Dates not published
- Black Professional Entrepreneurs Resurgence® Accelerator · Chicago, US · — · — · 6 weeks · Dates not published
- Business Incubator · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- CEJA Illinois Clean Energy Contractor Incubator Program · Glen Ellyn, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Entrenuity Accelerator Program · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Entrepreneurial Fellows · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Entrepreneurship Accelerator · US · — · — · 4 weeks · Dates not published
- Faculty Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (FELP) · US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- FinTech Innovation Lab · Chicago, US · — · — · 4 weeks · Dates not published
- FoodLab Chicago · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- FoodTech Innovation Lab · Chicago, US · — · — · 13 weeks · Dates not published
- Good Food Fund Incubator · Chicago, US · — · — · 12 months · Dates not published
- GROmentum Lab Accelerator · US · — · — · 16 weeks · Dates not published
- Ignite Seed Accelerate · Chicago, US · — · — · 16 weeks · Dates not published
- Illinois Corporate-Startup Challenge · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Incubation Cohort · Chicago, US · — · — · 17 weeks · Dates not published
- LTNtech Founders Incubator · Chicago, US · — · — · 12 weeks · Dates not published
- Make City · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Manufacturing Excellence Cohort · Chicago, US · — · — · 6 months · Dates not published
- Neighborhood Entrepreneur Lab · Chicago, US · — · — · 9 months · Dates not published
- Technology Entrepreneurship Cohort · Chicago, US · — · — · 13 weeks · Dates not published
- The Hatchery · Chicago, US · — · — · 16 weeks · Dates not published
- The Product Lab · Chicago, US · — · — · 6 weeks · Dates not published
- UChicago Science Incubator · Chicago, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Made for Retail Chicago · Chicago, US · — · No equity · — · Closed 9 Jul 2026
- mPOWER · Chicago, US · — · — · 17 weeks · Closed 22 May 2026
- CBC-HITES · Chicago, US · $75k · No equity · 12 months · Closed 5 May 2026
- Windy City Innovation Award · Chicago, US · $75k · No equity · — · Closed 5 May 2026
- iVenture Accelerator · Champaign, US · $20k · No equity · 10 weeks · Closed 7 Mar 2026
- Paratus Digital Health Accelerator · Chicago, US · — · — · 10 weeks · Closed 9 May 2025
- Fellowship · Chicago, US · — · — · 12 months · Closed 27 Mar 2021