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As Latisha Provo scribbled a classmate’s name across a bingo card square, she realized she was attending a unique kind of course.
Yet the experience – and the lessons she learned – were no game. It was a networking activity that is part of the Indiana Economic Development Course at Ball State University hosted by the Indiana Communities Institute.
Northern Indiana native Darrell Marks first met Mark Bailey when, as a teenager in 1985, Marks and his dad bargain hunted at Bailey’s new store.
These days, Marks continues to meet with Bailey and several of his family members – offering savings of his own.
A destructive 2019 building blaze also ignited Zyan Miller’s passion for a career building communities.
In a few years, some central Illinois businesses will pack products to travel to the airport – and they likely will arrive at their destination by train.