WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release:

Today, Eric Smith, director of the Tech Hubs Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA), visited the iFAB Tech Hub in Illinois. The Biden-Harris Administration, through the EDA, designated the iFAB Tech Hub, a coalition led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as a Tech Hub in October 2023.