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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.
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Ferrero expands B-N candy plant
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.
Lee partners with auto marketer
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.
Rivian files for IPO
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.
Music venue opens downtown
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.
Middle Sister offers range of clothing
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.
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.
OSF gets telehealth grant
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.
Nussbaum offers CDL training
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.
OSF opens cancer center
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.
City to allow more gambling licenses
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.
Developers ask to expand subdivision
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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