The Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce our 20th Leadership Belleville graduates. The Chamber celebrated graduation for the class of 2019 Friday, May 3 at the St. Clair Country Club. Kevin Bouse | Bouse Properties, LLC Adam Brewer | Edward Jones Phil Elfrink | TheBank of Edwardsville Karl Gilpin | Tygracon Properties, Inc. Joel Glasscock | City of Belleville Amy Goretzke | Allsup, LLC Christine Green | City of Belleville Tyler Hazelwonder | Kaskaskia Engineering Pat Minogue | City of Belleville Gina Poole | Memorial Hospital – BJC Healthcare Brandon Rakers | Bank of Belleville Ally Schwab | Mathis, Marifian & Richter, LTD. Chris Seaman | Scott Air Force Base Cheryl Tindall | HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Michelle Torigian | St. Paul United Church of Christ Andy Wolkiewicz | Greenfelder, Hemker &…
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Once again the Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce is teaming up with other local chambers (O’Fallon-Shiloh, Collinsville & Troy-Maryville-St.Jacob-Marine) to host this year’s EmpowerHer Women’s Conference at the Gateway Center in Collinsville. EmpowHer was created to provide women in business with information and tools to help them in their career. The event is set for Wednesday, June 19. We are currently looking for vendors to set-up at the event as well as sponsors. To find out more about these opportunities, click here. To purchase tickets, click here.
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Belleville’s Old Town Farmers’ Market is ready to kick-off its 20th Season on May 4th with what will be the best year ever! The Market pops up every Saturday through November 2nd from 7:30 am—noon on the first Block of South Charles. In addition to many of the loyal vendors that have been with us from the start like the Turkey Hill Grange, we have many new vendors to supply you with all you need! But what else do we have to offer new this year? Live music will again be provided to Market goers from 9 am—noon each Saturday. This has been made possible through the kind support of Kathy Mordini—Avenue Realty Associates, David C. Slimack—State Farm, and Mark Dill—Lender with US Bank. The City of Belleville has kindly provided the Market with a…
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The Otto Golf Classic is Monday, May 13 and the Chamber is looking to our members to donate items for the golfer goody bags. Items can range from branded golf tees, mugs, sunscreen, tumblers, golf umbrellas, food vouchers and much more! 144 individual items are needed to fill all golfer bags. Please have items to the Chamber Office by Wednesday, May 8th. Your support helps us to continue to carry out our mission: “Advancing business. Supporting community.” Thank you to our Title Sponsor: Cooling Concepts, LLC.
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The Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce is helping veterans find local the resources they need at their first Veteran Resource Fair this Thursday, April 18 from 9am-noon in the Southwestern Illinois College Gym in Belleville. Veterans and community members are welcome to join this free event and connect with over 30 local companies and organizations offering a wide variety of resources and opportunities including job search opportunities, resume advice, healthcare services, military discounts, and more. “The Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce continually seeks input from our community partners on how we can better serve Belleville and the surrounding area,” says Executive Director Wendy Pfeil. “One need that arouse from discussions in our Healthcare and Community Service Agency Committee was the need for Veterans to be able to find services that are available to them in…
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