Business Barometer
Rivian plans expansion
NORMAL — Rivian is looking to grow its west Normal facility by 623,000 square feet — the largest expansion the site has seen since the electric vehicle maker acquired the property in 2017 — bringing the facility’s total size to about 3.9 million square feet.
Ferrero expands B-N candy plant
Kannaday wins Athena honor
BLOOMINGTON — Colleen Kannaday, president of Carle BroMenn Medical Center and Carle Eureka Hospital, received this year’s Athena Leadership Award at a Sept. 30 event hosted by the McLean County Chamber of Commerce and Pantagraph Media.
BLOOMINGTON — The cocoa beans that will turn to Butterfingers, Crunch bars, Nutella and more chocolate products will processed, starting in 2023, at a $75 million, 70,000-square-foot expansion of Ferrero‘s Bloomington plant, the Italian firm’s first chocolate processing site in North America.
OSF gets telehealth grant
Lee partners with auto marketer
Nussbaum offers CDL training
Rivian files for IPO
OSF opens cancer center
Music venue opens downtown
City to allow more gambling licenses
Middle Sister offers range of clothing
Developers ask to expand subdivision
BLOOMINGTON — Lee Enterprises Inc., which operates in 77 markets and includes The Pantagraph in Bloomington, has entered into a partnership with Mudd Advertising, an automotive advertising agency based in Cedar Falls, Iowa. NORMAL — Rivian Automotive Inc. on Oct. 1 filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange expected to raise $8.4 billion.
BLOOMINGTON — Nick LeRoy, who also owns NTL Productions, opened The Stable Music Hall and Lounge, 236 E. Front St., Bloomington, in October as a vintage venue for live music and other shows and a place to meet friends. BLOOMINGTON — Kim Mattson knows how it feels to walk into a store and not see any clothes in her size, so she opened her own store, The Middle Sister: A Curvy Boutique, at 211 S. Prospect Road, Suite 15A, Bloomington, where she stocks women’s tops, jeans, dresses, leggings and more in sizes up to 6X.
BLOOMINGTON — Peoria-based OSF HealthCare, which operates OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, is set to receive nearly $944,000 in federal grant money to continue pandemic-era telehealth services. NORMAL — Drivers in Central Illinois will start seeing a semi bearing a Nussbaum Trucking Academy logo after Nussbaum Transportation partnered with Heartland Community College in October to offer CDL training. BLOOMINGTON — OSF HealthCare’s new Bloomington-based Cancer Center, which opened Oct. 18 at 210 St. Joseph Drive, is intended to be a one-stop shop offering just about everything a cancer patient could need. BLOOMINGTON — The Bloomington City Council has voted to create a system to award additional video gambling licenses in new property developments and newly annexed areas over opposition from a business owner and others. NORMAL — Developers have asked the town of Normal for permission to expand the Silver Oak Estates Subdivision, which is in the northeast corner of the larger Vineyards Subdivision at the southeast corner of Airport and Raab roads.
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