After a deal to sell the business fell through, Tammy Kaye Hearn has found a new home for Bright Star Scrubs and Uniforms. Bright Star has teamed up with another local small business, relocating to retail space inside B’s Creative Studio at 1333 Wabash Ave. The scrubs and uniforms retailer previously was just down the […]
Angela Mueller
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The Fountain on 66 closes
After just a year in business, The Fountain on 66 diner has closed. Owner Tom Hart announced the restaurant’s closing in a Facebook post. “After many sleepless nights and restless days I have made the tough decision to close the Fountain on 66,” Hart said in the post on Monday. Hart opened The Fountain, located […]
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All signs point to the future
Ace Sign Co.’s history reaches all the way back to hand-painting carriages in the 1860s and moves forward to its official launch under the Ace Sign Co. name in Springfield in 1940. The company’s pride in its heritage, and respect for the evolution of the sign industry overall, can be seen in the sign museum […]
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Country Market supporting family-owned producers since 1967
Liz Havens remembers being 5 years old and standing on a milk crate to check out customers at her family’s produce business in Springfield. Now, more than four decades later, some of those same customers are regulars at Country Market, the family-owned grocery store Havens and her brother own and operate on Wabash Avenue. The […]