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So, they relocated to Peoria. Since arriving in 2015, Frausto said they have owned a number of businesses in the area. In 2020, she opened TequilaRia Wine and Spirits at 3504 N. Prospect Road in ...
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that sponsors statewide economic development, with special emphases on increasing minority entrepreneurship, promoting the tourism industry, and recruiting Illinois as a location for business investment and film production.
African Americans in the Illinois General Assembly have had the longest uninterrupted presence in any state legislature in the United States, dating back to 1882. The first African American in the Illinois House of Representatives, John W. E. Thomas of Chicago, was elected in 1876, and after not being re-nominated in 1878 and 1880, returned to ...
Birdsall re-organized the agency to focus on developing Christian leaders, and led its expansion throughout Asia and name change to Asian Access. [4] Today Asian Access trains pastors and Christian leaders in more than a dozen Asian countries. In 1999 Birdsall was appointed director of the J Christy Wilson Center for World Mission.
The district's buildings reflect Peoria's development as an industrial center and major Illinois city. While Peoria was platted in the 1820s, the oldest buildings in the district date from 1867, shortly before Peoria's economic boom of the 1870s. In the late nineteenth century, Peoria's whiskey industry was among the largest in the world, and ...
May 6—Two new business centers aimed at spurring new minority-owned businesses opened in northern and southern New Mexico recently. The New Mexico Minority Business Development Agency announced ...
The center at 366 Luna Drive began operations following a $183,000 federal supplemental grant from the federal Minority Business Development Agency that was matched by $20,333 from the city of ...
On August 6, 2019, the Illinois Bible Institute reached an agreement to sell the entire WBGL/WCIC New Life Media Network to the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, which owns and operates a network of contemporary Christian stations and a network of Christian talk and teaching stations, for $9,901,558.34. [2] [3] [4] [5]