Welcome to the Business Geographics Center. Located in the College of Business at Northern Illinois University, this center has been established to promote the learning and development of geographic information systems for business. Students at all levels from business undergraduate through graduate will reap the benefits of what this center has to offer. The ultimate benefactors will be the organizations and firms with employees equipped to deal with the potential that business geographics offers modern, leading-edge companies. Business maps can be straight-forward such as the one below, showing the four NIU campuses, some northern Illinois counties, and a selection of cities. Alternatively, maps can be much more complex and filled with business savvy, like others maps that you will see as you browse the Business Geographics Center website. Simply click on the buttons to the right to learn more about geographic information systems and business geographics, in particular. For a full tour, visit all of the topics in order from top to bottom. If you just want to get a glimpse of a few topics, you can select those of interest to you. In either case, enjoy the journey! By the way--if you move the mouse cursor over any of the maps in this website, you will see a brief message telling you what software was used to produce the map. This website was created by Richard G. Born. Last Update 4/24/2006 © 1999-2006 Northern Illinois University