Collinsville Illinois

Gerald E. Livingston
People's Tribune
After his service, he worked for a trucking company in Caseyville, Illinois and then an insurance company in Collinsville, Ill. Gerald then worked for five years as the operations manager for the trucking division at Wetterau Foods. He then started St ...

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San Francisco Chronicle
Family donates home to Army sergeant
Saukvalley
COLLINSVILLE (AP) — Earl and Anita Johnson could have sold her mother's home and pocketed the profit, but they wanted to give something to the troops. So they donated the ... I knew it was in Illinois and I had heard of it," she said. "It's going to ...
SPOTLIGHT: Family Donates Home to Army Sergeant - KBTX.comKBTX

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SPOTLIGHT: Family donates home to Army sergeant
Beaumont Enterprise
In this April 24, 2013 photo, Anita Johnson gives a tour of a home she and her husband, Earl, donated to the Walter family in Collinsville, Ill. Thomas Walter Jr., left,15, sister Shanna Walter, 14, and their mother Teresa Walter, right, listen to ...

San Francisco Chronicle
ILLINOIS SPOTLIGHT: Family donates Collinsville home to Army sergeant
The Republic
COLLINSVILLE, Illinois — Earl and Anita Johnson could have sold her mother's home and pocketed the profit, but they wanted to give something to the troops. So they donated the modular home on Woodland Trails Drive in Collinsville, asking only that it ...
SPOTLIGHT: Family donates home to Army sergeantSan Antonio Express

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Collinsville High School celebrates the world
SuburbanJournals
A handful of Collinsville High School students bypassed the standard jeans-and-T-shirt attire last Friday, May 3, for kilts, kimonos, sombreros, saris, dashikis and lederhosen during the school's annual Global Fest. Organized by social studies teacher ...

Prep spotlight: Springfield High's Torgerson takes 2nd, 3rd
The State Journal-Register
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting: Blog Recap. COLLINSVILLE — Springfield High School's James Torgerson finished second in the discus and third in the shot put Saturday at the 21-team Collinsville Invitational. Lyons Township won the meet with ...

Metro-east economy still sluggish
Belleville News Democrat
In March, the jobless rate in Belleville was 9.6 percent, 7.4 percent in O'Fallon, 15 percent in East St. Louis, 8.3 percent in Collinsville and 9.6 percent in Granite City. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Economics and Finance ...

Collinsville man accused of robbing Fairview Heights Walgreens
Belleville News Democrat
Police said a man robbed the Walgreens at 6505 N. Illinois St. about 3 a.m. Thursday. He escaped with an undisclosed amount of money. During the investigation police were able to identify the man and, with assistance from the Collinsville Police ...

Jersey's Welbourne runs to win at Collinsville Track Invite
Alton Telegraph
“That was a stellar field,” Panthers' coach Harold Landon said of the multi-team Collinsville Invite. “It was like a southern state meet with all of the best teams from around here. And you also had teams from midstate and Chicago.” Landon added, “So ...

Collinsville business news for the week of May 1
SuburbanJournals
MARKETING. The Southern Illinois University School of Business' chapter of the American Marketing Association won the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Student Organization of the Year Award. BUSINESS. The following business licenses have been issued by the ...

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Collinsville education news for the week of May 1
SuburbanJournals
Collinsville student makes Rams cheerleading squad. Hannah Marchbanks, a senior at Collinsville High School, has been selected as a cheerleader for the St. Louis Rams. She began the audition process with 100 other participants. She made the first cut ...

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Dobbs Tire opens 40th store
Tire Business
Dobbs Tire has opened its 40th retail store, in Collinsville, Ill. COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (May 3, 2013) — Dobbs Tire & Auto Centers Inc. recently opened its 40th retail store, in Collinsville, representing its seventh retail outlet serving southern ...

Belleville News Democrat
Another gambling bill on the table in the Illinois Senate - Herald & Review
Herald & Review
In addition to allowing slots at tracks such as Fairmount Park in Collinsville and Quad City Downs in East Moline, it would allow them at Midway and O'Hare international airports. State Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, questioned why other Illinois ...
Illinois Senate approves gambling expansion billSt. Louis Business Journal (blog)
Illinois Senate OKs bill allowing video gambling at horse-racing tracksBelleville News Democrat

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PR Web (press release)
All Earth Renewables and Day & Night Solar Forming Partnership - PRWeb
PR Web (press release)
The dealer partnership between local installer Day & Night Solar of Collinsville, Illinois and award winning solar tracker manufacturer AllEarth Renewables was announced today. The first AllSun Tracker installed by Day & Night Solar was commissioned in ...

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Entertainment listings, May 2-9
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Held in conjunction with plant sales of Grand Prairie Friends, Illinois Prairie Hosta Society, CU Business Women's Club, Central Illinois Orchid Society, Bonsai Society of Central Illinois, African Violet Society and Marlin's Woodland Plants. Proceeds ...

Collinsville's Naturescapes celebrates 25 years of growth
STLtoday.com
It's not only paperbark maple trees and pink-and-white bleeding heart flowers that have grown at Naturescapes Perennial Farm and Plant Nursery overlooking Collinsville's Bluff Road. The plants and a now 25-year-old business have grown out a friendship ...

Quinn set to name new SIU board members
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
The two appointees are the result of a compromise worked out between Quinn and members of the Illinois Senate, who balked at an earlier round of nominees. In February, the Senate took the rare step of dumping nominees Sandra Cook of Collinsville, Dr.

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Modern Tire Dealer
40 and counting: Dobbs Tire opens Illinois store
Modern Tire Dealer
Dobbs Tire & Auto Centers Inc. has opened its 40th retail store in Collinsville, Ill. The new location represents the company's seventh retail store serving southern Illinois. The new store is located 10 miles east of downtown Saint Louis, at 1180 ...

Collinsville summer food program picks up where free school lunches leave off
SuburbanJournals
Callahan said the Collinsville coalition has teamed up with the Illinois Coalition for Community Services, a Springfield-based nonprofit organization that sponsors a Summer Food Program. Collinsville will become one of about 25 communities in Illinois ...

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Illinois Senate approves gambling expansion bill
St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
In March, Brian Zander, president of Fairmount Park Race Track in Collinsville, told the Business Journal he will spend $250,000 this year for lobbying in the state capital on the issue. If the bill fails, it will only become more difficult for ...
Gaming expansion plan moving again - The Southern IllinoisanThe Southern

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