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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.
Richard C. Briggs High School was a secondary school located in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.It opened in 1938 as a replacement for the Winnipauk School. [2] Later it was turned into the secondary level Center for Vocational Arts but is now named after Dr. Richard C. Briggs, who was the superintendent of Norwalk schools from 1971 to 1980.
J. Michael "Mike" Houston (born 1944) is a former mayor of Springfield, Illinois. He served as Springfield's mayor from 1979 to 1987 and from 2011 to 2015. He served as Springfield's mayor from 1979 to 1987 and from 2011 to 2015.
A critique in the Du Bois Review (2004) by Arline Geronimus and J. Phillip Thompson calls the Moving to Opportunity study "politically naive". [11] Their study theorizes that moving a family into a higher income neighborhood might solve immediate, direct health risks (for example clean water, less crime) however the loss of social integration, stress factors, and racially influenced ...
Daniel Ryan was born in Mankato, Minnesota, to Leonard and Irene (née Larson) Ryan. [1] While he was a child, the family moved to Springfield, Illinois. Ryan attended Cathedral Boys High School in Springfield, then entered the Passionist Preparatory Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
Ursuline Academy was a Catholic high school in Springfield, Illinois that operated from 1857 until 2007. In its final years, it was affiliated with Springfield College in Illinois (SCI). Ursuline Academy billed itself as a college preparatory school. One offshoot of its partnership with SCI was a program which allowed high school students to ...
Oreus, after stops in Brazil, Portugal and Mexico over an eight-year stretch, was drawn to Springfield in 2023 by family and friends who had alrea Haitian immigrants fueled Springfield's growth ...
The Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Central Illinois, anchored by the city of Springfield. As of the 2000 census , the MSA had a population of 201,437 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 208,182).