Week 10-19-09
10/19/09
Entrepreneurship
Plays in Peoria!
Peoria is ranked the FIFTH best midsized city in the U.S. to
launch a small business, according to CNN Money.
Best
Places to Launch a Small Business 2009 Peoria IL FORTUNE ...
The last time we wrote about Peoria investors had pledged nearly $2 billion
toward ... Peoria Area Chamber CEO Roundtables · Peoria NEXT Innovation Center
..
CNN
Money Ranks Peoria Great Place to Launch a Business
With CNN ranking Peoria the fifth best mid-sized city in American for
entrepreneurship …it bodes quite well for this area
Peoria
a great place for small business
Sally Hanley of the Economic Development Council for Central Illinois said EDC
stands ready to help prospective businesses and entrepreneurs. ...
Peoria parents are on a field trip in the Windy City Tuesday night learning how creating a new charter school in the River City can help them make the grade.
The trip was intended to build support for a Charter School in Peoria.
Fund construction of a biodiesel plant using pennycress as a feedstock. This
crop contains twice the oil content as soybeans, enabling this project to make
...
Facility
that will process pennycress into fuel gets boost by ...
That source is pennycress, a member of the mustard family with seeds that
contain 36 percent oil - twice as much as soybeans. The Peoria Republican noted
...
$500000 coming for planned biodiesel plant in Peoria County
The factory would produce biodiesel fuel made from pennycress, ... What makes pennycress attractive to farmers is that the oil crop is planted in the fall
Companies
use Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools to interact ...
A seminar last week by the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce at the Peoria NEXT
Innovation Center, 801 W. Main St., offered a primer on social media that ...
The panel will be moderated by Anaise Berry, of the Economic Development
Council for Central Illinois, based in Peoria. They will discuss implementing
community development strategies and a vision for economic growth in
challenging times…
Speaker
still says 'It's better here'
Speaking Friday morning to the Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce, Heartland
Partnership CEO Jim McConoughey stood by the “It's Better Here” ...
Midwest
must work together to grow in recession
Jim McConoughey, president and CEO of the Peoria-based Heartland Partnership,
an economic development organization of central Illinois, called the program
The deadline is looming to register for Community Leadership School…
The Heartland Partnership Family of Companies
The Heartland Partnership family of companies is committed to moving the Central Illinois Region from good to excellent through economic and community development.
