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Airfloat LLC: Getting the Word Out

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  The only thing keeping Airfloat LLC from providing more companies with air bearing material handling solutions is a general lack of knowledge, or misperception, about air bearing technology in the engineering community, according to President and owner Jason Stoecker
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2007 Job Growth

Over-the-Year Job Growth Continues during February in Local Areas across the State 

Springfield and Decatur Areas Add more than 2,300 New Jobs Over the Year

CHICAGO Over the year, total payroll jobs grew during February in all metro areas, with the exception of Danville which was essentially unchanged, according to data released by the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES).  The metro areas with the largest percentage increases in total jobs were Decatur (+2.6%, +1,400), the Illinois section of St. Louis (+1.6%, +3,800), and Kankakee-Bradley (+1.4%, +600).  Total jobs in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan Division rose +23,100, or +0.6%.  Eleven metro areas reported job increases in Educational and Health Services, ten in Professional and Business Services, and nine in Wholesale Trade.  Since January 2004, Illinois has added 198,100 jobs, which are more new jobs than any Midwest state.
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Enterprise Zone Guide has been Updated

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 Decatur Macon County
Enterprise Zone Process Guide
January 2008
 Effective July 1, 1983, the State of Illinois designated 9.3 square miles in Decatur as an Enterprise Zone for a term of 20 years. As of July 1, 2003, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) extended the life of the Decatur Macon County Enterprise Zone for an additional 10 year term.
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Macon Co. Work Force Analysis Released

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 The Economic Development Corporation of Decatur and Macon County (EDC) and the Workforce Investment Board of Macon and Dewitt Counties (WIB) contracted with Carter & Burgess, in association with Nortillo and Associates, in the third quarter of 2006, to conduct a work force analysis which focused on general manufacturing and biotechnology/food processing.
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ADM joins research project to pump carbon dioxide underground

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DECATUR - A project to test carbon dioxide storage capacity deep below Archer Daniels Midland Co.'s campus in Decatur is scheduled to begin this spring.

The company will announce today a partnership with the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium, which is led by the Champaign-based Illinois State Geological Survey, to work on the $84.3 million project.

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