Downtown sizzles the weekend after the Fourth of July and not just from the heat. The popular two-day festival, Taste of Downtown, runs Friday and Saturday, featuring the cuisine of over 20 city restaurants. Bite into scrumptious jerk pork tacos, meatloaf cupcakes, blackened salmon sliders, Caitie Girl’s horseshoe tributes, Cannolis, turkey cranberry cream cheese pretzel […]
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Women’s Business Showcase
Spring in Central Illinois is the perfect time to put your business in front of new customers—and the Women Entrepreneurs of Central Illinois (WECI) Women’s Business Showcase is built to do exactly that. Join us on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel for one of the region’s most anticipated events celebrating women-owned…
