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For nearly a century, many Camp Tecumseh visitors munched meals at the camp’s first constructed building. Attendees this summer are eating at the camp’s newest – and largest – building.
The camp received support to make the project happen in the latest example of a successful partnership with its local electric cooperative.
From electric truck manufacturer Rivian to healthcare employers and even chocolate manufacturing, Patrick Hoban discusses how Central Illinois has experienced an increasingly diversified economy.
A cashier was surprised when a truck driver hauled more than 50 bags of Macedonian snack crisps to the checkout counter.
It wasn’t a delivery. It was a purchase from a new travel center that received support from its local electric cooperative to open its doors and make visitors feel at home.
Second-generation farmer and longtime Boone County resident Don Lamb began working on his family’s farm at an early age alongside his father and brother.
Today, Lamb’s children work on the same family farm he helped to thrive. He sees them when he stops by each evening on his way home from his new job – growing Indiana’s agriculture industry.