Chatham Education and Workforce Center opens on South Side, offering job training, career counseling WLS Replay Video UP NEXT Chicago is celebrating a new workforce center, with hopes that it will serve the Chatham community in many different ways. City, county and federal leaders collaborated on the Chatham Education and Workforce Center project. Tuesday, they said they're celebrating a moment of "hope and opportunity" with the center's grand opening. Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinckle, Congressman Bobby Rush along with other elected officials and the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership got a tour of the new center at 640 East 79th Street.