Category Archives: Economic Development
Richland Community College & ABBOTT EMS Team Up to Fight EMT Shortage
October 16, 2022 - Richland Community College is partnering with ABBOTT EMS - the new ambulance service provider in Decatur - to create an Earn While You Learn course for Emergency Medical Technicians...
Oct 16, 2022
Manufacturing Month to Bring Creators Wanted Event to RCC
October 13, 2022 - Creators Wanted is coming to Decatur from October 24 - 26 and will be located in the Shilling Center at Richland Community College. Creators Wanted is the U.S. manufacturing industr...
Oct 13, 2022
LISTEN: Cordaryl Patrick & LaTonya Ricks James joined Thee Morris Code
October 12, 2022- Cordaryl Patrick, Community Development Director at City of Decatur & LaTonya Ricks James, a Workforce Development Consultant for Memorial Health, joined co-hosts Dr. Juanita Mor...
Oct 12, 2022
ADM Named to Newsweek's List of Top Most Loved Workplaces for 2022
October 6, 2022 - ADM (NYSE: ADM) was named to Newsweek's annual rankings for the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces list. The 2022 Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces are the result of a collaboration with the ...
Oct 06, 2022
Caterpillar celebrates brick and mortar expansion at the Decatur facility with ribbon cutting ceremony
October 5, 2022- Caterpillar held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the first brick and mortar expansion of the Decatur facility since 1997. "It has been 25 years since we have fou...
Oct 05, 2022
Reedy Takes Over at Regional Office of Education
October 5, 2022 - Jill Reedy is the new Regional Superintendent of the Macon and Piatt Counties Regional Office of Education #39. Jill Reedy, an eight-year veteran in the office will take over for a d...
Oct 05, 2022
Chamber of Commerce Releases List of Events for October
October 3, 2022 - The Decatur Regional Chamber of Commerce released their schedule for the month of October, which will include six events. Tuesday, October 11, 3:00 p.m. - Abbott EMS Ribbon Cutting. ...
Oct 03, 2022
LISTEN: Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe on Byers & Co
October 3, 2022 - Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe talks about the City Council business, solar panels at the Civic Center, future of EV's, vehicle registration, election day and. a small home projects program...
Oct 03, 2022
IDOT Awarded $10 million in Grants, Decatur Project to Focus on Electric Vehicles
October 2, 2022 - Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Transportation announced that more than $10 million has been awarded as 29 local grants for projects and activities to support the...
Oct 02, 2022
LISTEN: ADM Cares Fight Hunger Challenge on Byers & Co
September 30, 2022 - ADM Cares Director Jennifer Ballinger joined Byers & Co to celebrate ADM's 120th Birthday and ADM Cares Fight Hunger Challenge. To commemorate ADM's 120th Anniversary of its f...
Sep 30, 2022