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Economic Development! What does this phrase mean to you? Definitions seem to vary depending on your interest. To Main Street, it’s about the downtown area; to the Convention & Visitors Bureau, it’s about heads in beds; to the Chamber of Commerce, it’s about retail and service businesses; to healthcare, it’s about new patients in our hospital and residents in our assisted living facilities; to higher education, it’s about increased student enrollment; to the Small Business Development Center, it’s about start-up businesses and entrepreneurship. To the Jacksonville Regional Economic Development Corporation, it’s all of the above, plus retention, expansion and recruitment efforts.
Posted: January 01, 2015
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The City of Jacksonville is located in west central Illinois, 35 miles west of Springfield, the state capital. It is the county seat of Morgan County and one of the oldest towns in the Land of Lincoln, founded in 1825. Jacksonville was established by Yankee settlers from New England, who laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings, and established post routes. They were part of a wave of European/American farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory, during the early 1800s. Download Here!