Looking for COBOL in-class training in Chicago. Does anyone have any info?

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Looking for COBOL in-class training in Chicago. Does anyone have any info?

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Finding COBOL training anywhere can be problematic as best these days. A lot of schools dropped it from their curriculum thinking it was dead and buried, but some are now starting to carry it again. The most active training goes on in India however, as consultants continue to flock to the US and Europe in droves.

With so many of us oldtimers approaching retirement, companies are waking up to the fact that, without new analysts learning COBOL, they may be hard-pressed to find people to support their legacy systems without paying thru the nose for it. Your best bet is probably a community college rather than a 4-year university - loads cheaper that way too.