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First Class

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.

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Family Discount

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.

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Burning to Passion

A destructive 2019 building blaze also ignited Zyan Miller’s passion for a career building communities.

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Planes, Soon Trains and Automobiles

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.

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