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NOVEMBER 2015

USINESS URNAL REGION,ONE VISION”

BUSINESS JOURNAL “ONE REGION,

ONE VISION”

MAKING THE CONNECTION

The digital divide is an economic divide PAGE 4

INSIDE

Directory of Advertisers John A. Logan College ...........11

NOVEMBER 2015 ON THE COVER

THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IS AN ECONOMIC DIVIDE

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THE LIST

10 DIGITAL DEPENDENT BUSINESSES IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

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BEING THE BOSS

INTERVIEW WITH CARBONDALE POLICE CHIEF JEFF GRUBBS

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES

THE INTERVIEW

Pepsi MidAmerica ..................8

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Raymond James Financial

‘GIGABIT CITY’ STATUS FULL OF POTENTIAL

REAL ESTATE

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE FOR NOVEMBER

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Services ..................................6 SIU Credit Union .....................9

PUBLIC RECORD

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BANKRUPTCIES AND BUILDING PERMITS

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Southern Illinois Healthcare 16 Southern Illinois University .. 14

ONLINE EDUCATION ON THE RISE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

Williamson County Airport ... 15

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The Southern Business Journal is a publication of The Southern Illinoisan. Contact us via mail at 710 N. Illinois Ave., Carbondale, IL 62901, or at P.O. Box 2108, Carbondale, IL 62903. Also reach us on the Web at www.sbj.biz and via email at SBJ@thesouthern.com. The Journal is published 12 times per year monthly and distributed by The Southern Illinoisan and www.thesouthern. com. Copyright 2015 by The Southern Illinoisan, all rights reserved. A subscription may be obtained by calling 618-529-5454 or 618-9973356, or by visiting our website.

Publisher John Pfeifer 618-351-5038 Editor Autumn Phillips 618-351-5033 Advertising Kim Fowler 618-351-5035 Design and Layout Rhonda May 618-351-5077

FROM THE

PUBLISHER

The other gap

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here may well be a digital gap in your community or in your company, but it’s nowhere near the most significant gap that you face on a daily basis. No, our biggest gap is the time/energy/priority gap.

I was leaving an advertiser’s business a few weeks ago with our newest ad salesperson who remarked casually, “every customer I’ve met with has told me they’re too busy.” She went on to say that these same customers collectively instruct her to “run the same ad” or follow the status quo until they “have time” to create a new strategy or formulate a more thorough marketing plan.

Of course the search for this mysterious time never really starts and we often remain helpless pawns in the battle to manage our own time.

Faced with this time crunch and a seeming inability to “make time” for the important, we let the urgent direct our actions and we begin to measure success by merely “making it through another week.” We know we ought to take control of our lives, but we can’t quite get there. Over time, we do what we do best — we ignore the issue. It creates far too much cognitive dissonance.

A few months ago, I asked one of my managers to define their “Top Three” priorities. They couldn’t do it. And I let them off the hook. Fortunately, they didn’t turn the tables and ask me the same thing. I wonder what I would have answered. Come to think of it, I wonder what my answer would be today.

What are your Top Three priorities?

If you run a business, or a division or a department, you really ought to know the answer.

If you are a salesperson, you really need to have an answer.

If you are employed by anyone doing anything, you really need to have an answer.

If you’re looking for a new job, you really need to have an answer.

Inertia is a powerful force; perhaps the most significant force that we never consider.

Inertia causes us to go through our days and our weeks without a well-defined destination and set of priorities to guide us. It is our biggest gap. And it will only go away when we make a conscious decision to change our lives and take control of our lives and of our time.

It’s that difficult—and that simple.

JOHN PFEIFER | PUBLISHER, SBJ

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COVER

STORY

Signs advertising for Internet service are a common site in rural areas around Southern Illinois.

BYRON HETZLER, THE SOUTHERN

The digital divide is an

economic divide PAGE 4 NOVEMBER 2015 SOUTHERN BUSINESS JOURNAL

COVER

STORY

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or most people, the Internet is no longer a luxury. It is a necessity.

The Internet is necessary for many to advance professionally, to connect with friends and family and to advance an education. It’s a stepping stone for economic success. But what if Internet access is too expensive or not available in rural areas?

While network providers such as Frontier Communications or Mediacom have worked to reach deeper into rural areas in Southern Illinois, there are some geographic and economic barriers to expanding broadband in places that are hilly, forested and remote.

“Broadband service may be difficult to obtain in rural areas with low population, environmental barriers and greater geographical distances,” said Andrea Fast, senior communications specialist with Frontier.

In Carbondale, Frontier has installed gigabit fiber optics along Illinois 13 from Reed Station Road to Striegel Road with many of the customers in that area having access to very high-speed Internet.

Frontier General Manager Eric Shadley said the network provides speeds up to 1 gigabit, or 1,000 megabits to customers along Illinois 13.

“We all know access to fast, affordable Internet is a game-changer for towns, cities and neighborhoods,” he said in December. “This empowers the community and provides a key economic gateway to prosperity.”

The network provided speeds 50 times faster than what was available when it was first installed, making Carbondale the region’s first “Gigabit City.”

Mediacom, another major provider in Southern Illinois, had high residential speeds to offer a wide variety of the region. It can offer a standard of 15 megabytes all the way up to 150 megabytes in the region. It is currently offering 1 gigabyte speeds in Missouri, according to Mediacom Communications Director Phyllis Peters.

She said some business customers in the area already capitalize on the 1 gig speeds.

Public Opinion

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute conducted a poll about Internet access in Southern Illinois that reached a random sample of 600 people in Jackson and Williamson counties.

children will for economic opportunity.”

Steven Mitchell, Connect SI network provider coordinator, said those who don’t see the need for Internet sometimes don’t know what online access can provide.

“There has to be some driving reason for them to access the Internet,” he said.

“It could home health care. It could be communicating with their grandchildren who live far away.

“There is not only education about what can be done with broadband, but also how do it.”

Yepsen said it is a challenge for the region to find a way to get broadband Internet into places where it is difficult to have service. It was reported in the survey that areas near Herrin and in the Bottoms of Jackson County were areas with more access problems, but Yepsen went further than the survey boundaries.

“I think it isn’t just Herrin, it is Alexander County where it is very difficult to get access,” he said. “Some of this is a chicken and the egg thing. We don’t have the people or the economy, so the private sector doesn’t bring access to us. Therefore, we can’t grow and have better jobs.

“How to we break that cycle?”

He said it is incumbent on the local elected offices, business owners and providers sitting down and saying Internet access is essential and learning how to foster its best use.

“It is not enough just to say that we Internet, it is only going to increase the Institute Director David Yepsen said lack of opportunities these people have,” like it,” Yepsen said. the survey was a replication of a poll Mitchell said most towns with more Deitz said. conducted by the University of Illinois than 250 or 500 people definitely Twenty-six percent of those people at Springfield and the idea is to get data to policy makers and researchers so they who said they didn’t have Internet access should have access to the Internet either through broadband or dial up. say they didn’t have a computer and can use it to form more informed opinHe said if a community doesn’t 33 percent reported it is too expensive ions, write policy and steer funding. have internet at all, it usually falls on for access.

The author of the report produced by the provider.

The other major factor of those indithe Institute was Shiloh Deitz. She said “Either the provider’s equipment she was surprised by the number of peo- viduals not connected to the Internet is doesn’t reach out that far, or they haven’t that 22 percent of people say they don’t ple that still do not have Internet. The had the chance to build out that far,” have a use for the Internet or don’t have report revealed that 18 percent of those Mitchell said. “Whether that is cable or any interest. surveyed did not have access at home.

DSL, it all requires infrastructure and “I was surprised by how much income cost. They might not have budgeted or and education levels were still correlated The Next Generation attempted to get out there.” to people’s ability to have access,” Deitz Yepsen challenged those individuals He said Internet providers have spent said. “Those with higher income and who say they don’t have a need for Intera lot of money in the region expanding education levels are more likely to have net access by asking if that answer is Internet access.” good enough for the next generation that its coverage to those that didn’t have any options or poor service.

She said based on the report that 50.5 would include their grandchildren.

“Over the past five or six years, it is a percent of those people who do not have “If we are worried about growing Internet had an income level below $30,000 smaller communities, we need to be wor- completely different landscape,” Mitchell and 62 percent of those without access had ried about Internet access and broadband said. “It is amazing how much connectivity is out there. It might be slower and a education level of a GED or less. access,” he said. “Maybe the parents might be expensive, but at least it’s there.”

“If you think of disparity of access to and grandparents don’t need it, but the

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THE LIST

10 digital dependent businesses in Southern Illinois MEDIACOM

LIAISON TECHNOLOGIES

SALUKI SCREEN REPAIR

FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS

HIGHLINE IDEAS

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NETWORK CONSULTANTS

MAYER NETWORKS

BUTLER BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

CLEAR WAVE COMMUNICATIONS

SILKWORM

Harrisburg 37 South Main Street (618) 253-4444 Michael P. Tison Senior Financial Advisor

Marion 1201 Tower Square (618) 993-3513

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BEING

THE BOSS

CARBONDALE POLICE CHIEF JEFF GRUBBS INTERVIEW CONDUCTED

BY AUTUMN PHILLIPS

“I am very fortunate to have had several mentors during my career, both past and present.”

Q. What was your first job and what did you learn from it?

A. My grandfather was a bricklayer

and concrete finisher who began taking me with him during the summer, beginning when I was about 12 until I moved to Carbondale almost eight years later. I learned a lot about hard labor, but I also developed a skill set in masonry that I still put to use on occasion. My other grandfather was a police chief. He may not have been in my life for long, but the way he carried himself inspired me to pursue a career in law enforcement. They both taught me about honor and integrity and I miss them very much.

Q. What do you look for when you hire someone? Are there key interview questions that you ask?

A. I want someone who has a good edu-

cational and employment background and someone who values being part of a team. I also think first impressions are often a key indicator and sometimes the simplest questions turn out to be the most problematic for those who have not prepared themselves for the interview. I want to hear their story and for them to tell me what makes them the best candidate for the job.

Q. Did you have a mentor early in your career?

A. I am very fortunate to have had

Q. What is the best way to improve employee morale?

A. I think ensuring the people who

several mentors during my career, both past and present. Some inspired me to develop a diverse skill set by seeking as many specialty training classes and varying work assignments as I could, while another inspired me to obtain my graduate degree. All of them taught me about the importance of commitment, but more importantly about respect and the importance of treating people with respect.

work for you know you truly care about them and the work they do for the community. I want them to feel important and to know that the work they do is important. I am a huge advocate for the professionals we have who work in the police department for the community. I often tell people that our police officers are some of the most highly trained, well-educated and dedicated officers that I’ve been around and I truly mean that.

Q. What is the biggest management lesson you’ve learned in your years as a leader?

A. Making sure to listen to and to try

to understand the varying views people have and to do the best I can do to take those into consideration while trying to determine what course the police department takes to better itself and the community as a whole. In doing so you have to make sure you move forward in the right direction and that you continue to evaluate the course you set to determine when and where change may be needed. Also, always remind yourself that doing the right thing may not always be the easiest thing to do, but it

Q. What career advice would you give to a new college graduate?

A. Diversify yourself to the extent pos-

is always the right thing to do.

Q. What is your morning routine?

How do you prepare yourself for the day?

A. The very first thing I do when I wake in the morning is to check my phone or

tablet for notifications regarding what activities may have occurred during the overnight hours in the community.

The daily calendar will vary depending on what those messages may bring, but it is otherwise set in advance to the extent possible.

sible in order to set yourself apart. Look to continue your education to at least the graduate level and evaluate whether those graduate studies should be in a different discipline than your undergraduate studies. Immerse yourself in the work of the profession you choose and make sure it has meaning to you as you should want to make a difference in life.

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BEHIND THE

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Online education on the rise in Southern Illinois ‌I n the new higher-education landscape, even hands-on engineering instruction can take place online.

Where once students and teacher sat side-by-side to build circuits, now simulation software offers a nearhands-on approach. Where once face-to-face interaction proved key, now video conferencing software such as Skype and GoToMeeting bring together learners and instructors from coast to coast.

Thanks in large part to advancements in software technology, online education is on the rise nationwide.

Between 2003 and 2011, online enrollment increased as a percentage of total enrollment from 11.7 percent to 32 percent.

Here in Southern Illinois, the trend is providing thousands of mid-career workers a chance to broaden their skills and thousands of traditional college students the flexibility of learning from nearly anywhere.

“It’s challenging to be a student in general, so we want to make sure there are no obstacles presented to them that hold them back from achieving their goals,” said Krystal Reagan, associate dean for education technology at John A. Logan College.

Learning from home helps reduce daycare and transportation costs for lower-income students, Reagan said.

At JALC, 20 percent of courses are offered online.

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The average student takes 1.7 to two online courses each semester.

At Southern Illinois University, the number of online courses on offer has increased, from 59 in 2010 to 256 in 2015, a jump of 334 percent in five years.

The increase has allowed both schools to tap into new markets of learners, too. In Illinois, more than half of all workers lack a college degree.

With an impending goal of increasing degree-holding workers to 60 percent by 2025, some educators see online learning as the ticket.

“You do have several Illinoisans who may, for whatever reason, discontinue their education, whether it’s family concerns, whether it’s needing to go to work and they didn’t complete their degree,” said Mandara Savage, acting director of SIU’s Extended Campus. “This represents an opportunity to complete their degree.”

Savage and Reagan said they don’t anticipate online learning to replace one-onone instruction. As long as there are different learning styles, there should be different teaching styles. But online’s rise has yet to reach its peak.

“I don’t believe it’s topped out,” Reagan said. “I think with the increase of technology that’s available, you will see an increase in online enrollment and online courses that are available.”

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THE

INTERVIEW

‘Gigabit City’ status

FULL OF POTENTIAL High-speed Internet can aid economic development, but many city leaders still figuring out how

A

s Carbondale became Southern Illinois’s first “Gigabit City,” there was lots of talk about how the faster Internet speeds at competitive prices could be a boon for economic development.

But how exactly does the city turn its fiber-optic network into tangible results that put people to work?

Cities with gigabit infrastructure can help grow a small community when it’s marketed as part of a package deal, experts say.

“Economic development is the thing we tend to go to, but not necessarily the only thing cities should think about,” said Deb Socia, executive director of Next Century Cities, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works with cities that want to have fast, affordable broadband. “I think the opportunity to have improved tele-health and education and transportation and e-government and participatory democracy, all of these things are important to success.”

She pointed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where officials during the past 10 years have worked to change the city’s image from rundown and passed over to a happening place to live, work and start a business.

“They don’t just sell their gig,” Socia said. “They sell their city, the quality of life, outdoor activities, music and art happenings, good restaurants, and their city’s life.

It’s so much more than just the gig.”

Socia said becoming a “gigabit city” probably isn’t enough on its own to make a town competitive for new businesses and residents, but it can be that little something extra that tips the scale.

In Carbondale, Frontier Communications, through a partnership with the city and SIU, recently began offering

ultra-fast Internet speed to residents and businesses, and Clear Wave Communications began offering commercial services in 2012 to Illinois’s lowerthird counties.

A gig offers speeds of 1,000 megabits per second to download and upload.

Comparatively, a more typical residential service provider may offer speeds of

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25 megabits per second download, and five megabits per second upload.

The enhanced speeds were made available when Frontier and its partners were able to leverage a $1.5 million grant from Gov. Pat Quinn’s Illinois Gigabit Challenge. Even though Clearwave already was offering a commercial service, the addition of providers could

help drive down costs for the expensive service, said Interim Carbondale City Manager Gary Williams.

Williams said the service has since been expanded from the Route 13 corridor to Evolve downtown to as far out as Makanda, where a development is under way. So far, Williams said, it’s his understanding that a few residential customers have taken advantage of enhanced services, as well as some doctors and other businesses.

The city is working on a broadband innovation plan, Williams said, as advances through an “America’s Best Cities” competition sponsored by Frontier, Dish Network, The Weather Channel and CoBank to stimulate economic revitalization in small towns and cities. Carbondale already has received $50,000 for advancing as a quarterfinalist, and is in the running to ultimately win $3 million.

But while it’s a sought-after status, the path forward for a “Gigabit City” in terms of drawing new businesses isn’t entirely clear. That’s because in many ways the speeds offered are a futuristic offering — while there are some hightech companies who want it and seek it out, the speeds aren’t really necessary at this stage for the average residential user, or even many businesses.

“I think there are a lot of uses, and also a lot of questions,” Williams said.

“Those questions shed light on challenges with gigabit, and if you poll nationally, the majority of people will tell you they’re still trying to figure out what the potential is for gigabit.”

The mayor of Mount Vernon, Washington, a town about the size of Carbondale with a population of 32,600, said her city has been able to make some

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Crab Orchard Golf Course, 901 Grand Ave., Carterville‌ List price: $2,900,000 MLS: 330785 economic development gains in the past decade thanks to a fiber-optic network they began building underground in the early 2000s. Mayor Jill Boudreau said the project started as a means to connect the school district, health care system, hospitals and city and county governments.

Some plans were implemented, but not many and really slowly because of what she described as a lack of tangible interest by the previous administration.

She said she’s made it a priority to promote the service since becoming mayor three years ago. In Mount Vernon, Washington, the city owns the network, and nine partnering providers offer the service to businesses that want it. It is not offered at this stage to residential customers, she said, but could be in the future.

In recent years, she said, the city has been able to draw a handful of tech

companies from the Seattle area that needed the high-speed Internet capacity but liked the idea of building shop where the cost-of-living was lower, the traffic was lighter and the parking is free.

The companies that have landed there are relatively small, employing between about five and 25 people, but the pay is a huge benefit to the region, generally starting at around $70,000, she said.

“We’re working on strategy to recruit more out of Seattle market,” she said, adding that the strategy to do that is to offer up the amenities of rural living, such as, in Mount Vernon’s case, one can go salmon fishing at the lake before heading into work.

“For us, it’s about being able to draw real living-wage jobs that are paying the wages that elevate our rural community,” she said.

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Pauline Kerley Jr., 2075 State Route 37 North, Buncombe Aaron D. Barnaby, 3824 Childers Road, Marion James K. and Jesse L. Scroggins, 808 S. 34th St., Mount Vernon Bruce A. Brown, 13681 Bloomington St., Marion Jerry D. and Mary A. Smith Jr., P.O. Box 62, Wolf Lake Roy T. King, 2201 Melanie Lane, Apt. A., Marion Carl C. and Erica D. Stiff, 290 Dunn Lane, Goreville Alisha M. Moore, 3200 Blackberry Lane, Equality Gavin L. Taylor, 19070 Crab Orchard Road, Marion John K. and Heather M. Rice, 1313 Roser Drive, Carmi Michael P. Thompson, 18698 Caplinger Pond Road, Marion Daniel L. and Crystal G. Fletcher, 1817 Pershing Road, West Frankfort Kevin K. and Megan Nicole Kay, 211 Brinley St., Benton Cheryl Ann Juarez, 1301 State St., Eldorado Michael W. and Rhonda I. Frick, 17314 Harris School Road, Johnston City Horace D. Inboden, 704 Burrell St., Carmi Jack G. and Teresa A. Boles, 11727 Michigan Drive, Marion William E. Denney, 301 N. 14th, Apt. 303, Herrin Michael R. Tripp, P.O. Box 1473, Murphysboro Lyndsi Wiltermood, 115 W. Baker, St., Harrisburg Shawn M. Eldridge, 410 S. Ward St., Benton Linda D. Sherman, 17 Palm Lane, Murphysboro Alan D. and Jeanna M. Baney, 3972 Thompson, St., Thompsonville Melanie J. VanAusdoll, P.O. Box 213, Ava Alexander J. and Jessica L. Fleming, 100 N. Park Lane, Jonesboro Regina L. Webb, 200 Circle Drive, McLeansboro Mildred L. Farris, 513 S. Mechanic, Marion Melissa R. Hall, 510 Washington St., Carterville

‌Chapter 7 Brandy L. Toepfer, 590 Lakeshore Drive South, Goreville Hutson-Steinhouse, Inc., 590 Lakeshore Drive South, Goreville Terry W. Hamlin, 302 W. Walnut St., Carrier Mills Ryan J. Tellor, 102 Indusrial Drive, Anna Tasha Lynn Dersch, 606 E. Howe St., Apt. 12, P.O. Box 45, Irvington Billy Allyn Petersen, 4237 Lincolnshire Drive, No. 10b, Mount Vernon Holly R. Bloodworth, 613 S. 14th St., Herrin Lloyd L. Rich, 207 S. Madison, Marion Susan D. Rich, 501 N. Market St., Apt. 600, Marion Steven H. and Tina B. Machura, 2221 Cardinal Road, West Frankfort Andrea Lynn McFadden, 302 Debra Lane, Sparta Samuel David Neal and Susan Faye Shelby Neal, 4555 Highway 34 South, Harrisburg Billy W. and Rachel N. Lazenby, 705 Murphy Road, Pinckneyville Nathan A. Harding, 403 S. Garfield, Steeleville Dorn A. Freeman II, 14172 Binkley Road, Johnston City Malcolm J. Larry, 721 North St., Pulaski Damon S. and Amy J. Stahlhut, 908 S. Buchanan, Marion Douglas Dale and Anna Marie Leggans, 370 Hallidayboro Road, Elkville Kevin L. Dahn, 105 S. Eighth St., Herrin Roger L. and Linda L. Haake, 515 W. Adams St., Nashville James H. and Glenna S. Boldrey, 9987 N. Nason Lane, Mount Vernon Elizabeth A. Casteel, 304 S. Pearl St., McLeansboro Ada F. Cain, 820 S. 16th, Herrin Chapter 13 Joseph Glen and Rashele

Jessica L. Loucks, 8349 Sassafras Road, Du Quoin Terry L. and Diane K. Yactzak, 402 W. Harrison, Christopher Darrell E. and Anna B. Harris Sr., 3584 Mount Pleasant Road, Brookport Joselito Mendez, 1181 E. Walnut St., Building 1 Apt. 4, Carbondale Paul D. and Cynthia Taylor Jr., 1245 Verble, Wolf Lake George W. and Lilian M. May Jr., 908 S. 26th St., Mount Vernon Cricket S. Velasques, P.O. Box 216, Jonesboro Thomas J. and Susan R. McVay, 2865 Raleigh Chapel Road, Raleigh Justin W. and Amy J. Johnson, 412 W. Wilson St., Herrin Roy J. and Victoria L. Smith, 21410 W. Jackson St., Tamms Theresa F. Bowlin, 404 E. Cliinton St., Pinckneyville Mitchel D. Pulley, 1304 E. Parham, Marion Jonathon G. Heath, 516 W. Main St., Ridgway Jackie L. Williams, P.O. Box 96, Elkville Patricia A. Oakley, 1201 N. Garfield, Marion Lisa A. Johnson, 805 S. Virginia, Marion Thomas R. Lyons, 203 S. Roosevelt, Dowell LIza G. Cervi, 203 S. Roosevelt, Dowell Katherine J. Towers, 608 Sylvia Ave., Christopher Kristen L. Glasford, 525 N. 15th St., Murphysboro Kelley Gunter, 201 S. Studell St., Benton Suzanne P. Novoselac, 601 S. Seventh St., Coulterville Darwin N. Roddy, 222 Richland Terrace, Mounds Maliaka T. Evans, 621 Railroad St., Ullin Johnnie J. and Whitney L. Veach, 807 E. McKinley, Marion Misty D. Dempsey, 500 S. Ninth St., Herrin Diana Lei Jacques, P.O. Box 20, Norris City William L. and Sharon K. Shacklee, 4368 Old U.S.

Highway 51, Makanda William H. Cunningham, 605 E. Murray St., Sesser Melinda D. Reynolds, 109 S. Burlison St., Buckner John P. and Pamla J. Vaughn, 316 Fifth St., Cairo Kellie S. Ellis and Leah E. Crask, P.O. Box 43, Gorham Chase Kenton and Robyn Elizabeth Allen, 155 Brushy Creek Church Road, Harrisburg Ronald J. and Heather L. Stell, 307 N. 10th St., Coulterville Andew R. Deborah R. Burgess, 507 N. Gardner, West Frankfort Ronnie D. Mason, 501 28th St., Cairo George E. and Margaret Jane Ellis, 112 N. Chamberlain Drive, Marion James Alan Hoy, 305 E. Bond, Benton Augustus G. McKinley Jr., 418 E. Larch St., Carbondale Walter L. Smith, 2232 Alexander St., Murphysboro Ronald Ramos, 816 E. Carroll, Herrin Tommy D. Pullum, 2064 Dr. Springs Road, Carterville Marci A. Foy, 709 W. Sloan St., Harrisburg Daniel Gene and Holli Lyne Smith, 1108 S. 23rd St., Mount Vernon Jerry Wallace and Rita Kay Beck, P.O. Box 88, Cisne Mark L. Smith, Lot 69, 200 Paradise Drive, Carterville Donna L. Berendt, 301 S. Goldhimer, Benton

Permits Carbondale‌ Anita Hutton, 1502 W. Freeman St., $20,000 Michael Kimmel, 505 W. Walnut St., $18,000 Keith Flynt, 2603 W. Kent Drive, $30,000 Sorrell Gillespie Jr., 209 S. Gray Drive, $15,000 Doris Bell, 1300 N. Robert A. Stalls Ave., $75,000 Home Rentals, 609 N. Allyn St., $1,000 Alleman Properties, 711 S. Poplar St. E, value not listed Loretta Cooley, 1001 E. Park St., Numbers 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 23 and 24, $100,000 each E. Claire Salon, 212 S. University Ave., $15,000 Insomnia Cookies, 710 S. Illinois Ave., $18,000 Julie Rich and Steve Lazorchak, 302 S. Crestview Lane, $500 Nancy Cotton, 1000 N. Springer St., $2,100 Walmart Money Center, 1450 E. Main St., $25,000 Marion‌ Joe Nigro, 1000 Loren Ave., $3,000 Seever Construction, 1709 Felts Drive, Melmar Estates, $36,564 Seever Construction, 1718 Felts Drive, Melmar Estates, $177,510 Enrico Castellano, E & S Construction, 205 S. Bentley St., $165,000 Pancake Holding Company LLC, 2607 Blue Herron Drive,

The Hill Phase 2, amount to be determined.

Richard Musgrave, 2800 Hickory Lane, $4,500 Alan Tepper, 908 N. Highland St., $6,100 JE Mayer LLC, 2700 Cree Drive, $82,000 Aaron’s, 1305 W. Dufour St., $52,000 Marion Self Storage, 2100 E. Main St., $200,000 Dennis McDonald, 2804 Outer Drive, value not listed

Murphysboro‌ Janice and Joseph, 1907 Walnut St., $10,000 Terry Ridings, 1912 Walnut St., $600 Joe Elbrecht, 801 N. Sixth St., $9,000 Cathy Sanders, 1208 N. 14th St., $6,000 Kim Cline, 1519 Spruce St., $800 Jose Barrios, 1922 Hamilton St., $5,000 Danny O’Hooker, 428 N. 16th St., $2,000 John Marjanovich 1925 Division St., $17,930 Metropolis ‌ Linda Buchanan, 411 W. 11th St., $65,000 Linwood Real Estate LLC, 1532 E. Fifth St., $60,000 Orthopedic Surgery, 1811 E. Fifth St., $5,500 Orthopedic Surgery, 1811 E. Fifth St, $3,900 JC Housing Company, 1611 Filmore St, $10,000

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