Taking stock of the community's resources to support entrepreneurship growth and development is a critical element to creating a proactive environment for business development. Local Economic Development Organizations can take proactive approach to assisting existing and prospective business owners...

Strengthening Local Food Systems Although conversations are held nationally, many solutions are sought locally. Large urban centers garner most of the media attention in this sector, but small and mid-size cities play an important role in the United States' local food systems. Local residents,...

Regional Economic Development in Fulton County 2015 Public Engagement Symposium | March 10 Sponsored by Office of Public Engagement and the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning Spoon River Partnership for Economic Development, a non-profit...

Local Food Resource Guide The food we eat has profound impacts on public health, environmental quality, economic development, and land use. Increasingly, activists, analysts, public health practitioners, farmers, consumer advocates, and policy makers agree that finding new...

Creating a local Historic Commercial district is the focus of a UIUC Department of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone project. Marcia Klop, Graduate Student in Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UIUC is working with University of Illinois Extension, City of Washington Economic Developer...

Prepared by Nancy Smebak, University of Illinois Extension Research Assistant, April 2015 This project documents and describes the food system in Peoria County and the surrounding region through participatory and analytic mapping and key informant interviews and videos....