Springfield will soon have a new option for soul food. Jenita Harris is opening 710 Rippy G’s in the food court at White Oaks Mall on Saturday, July 27. The name was chosen to honor her late brother-in-law, whose birthday was July 10. “He was one of the best cooks in the family,” she said. […]
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Grand opening for Jack McNamara’s Par Fore Lounge
Golf fans now have another year-round option to enjoy their favorite sport. Jack McNamara’s Par Fore Lounge, a bar and lounge that also offers a golf simulator, has opened at 7036 Kingsmill Court. “We knew the golf simulators were becoming popular, and because we’re located right behind Piper Glen, we thought during the winter months […]
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Crave Cookies opens Springfield store
Crave Cookies has opened a Springfield location at 3808 Octavus Via. Franchise owners Josh and Jennifer Ellison announced plans earlier this year to bring the gourmet cookie company to the capital city. A soft opening was held July 31, with a grand opening planned for Saturday, Aug. 3. “We’ll be giving away 1,500 free chocolate […]
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Springfield Gymnastics Center has two moves in the works
Springfield Gymnastics Center has a new facility under construction on the west side, but in the meantime, the business will operate out of the former Shop ‘n Save property on the corner of Wabash Avenue and Chatham Road. “The new building is scheduled to be done next spring,” said co-owner Brad Epperson. “We’ve already broken […]
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Shangri-La Dispensaries to hold grand opening July 11
Shangri-La Dispensaries will hold a grand opening at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 11, for its new Springfield dispensary. The event will include area vendors, food trucks and live music. Shangri-La, 3128 S. Dirksen Parkway, represents the company’s first entrance into Illinois’ adult-use cannabis market. The parent company, founded in 2019, is a multistate cannabis operator […]
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New restaurant under construction on west side
A new restaurant is under construction on the west side of Springfield, with additional space available for a second restaurant or retail use. Rotary Center LLC, an entity partially owned by area developer Steve Zhao, is constructing a two-unit building at 3061 Wabash Ave., located in Southwest Plaza II along with the west-side Lowe’s. The […]
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Neuhoff sells Springfield and Bloomington radio stations
Neuhoff Family Limited Partnership, the parent company of Neuhoff Media-Springfield, LLC and Neuhoff Media-Bloomington, LLC has announced it has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of WFMB-AM/WFMB-FM, WCVS-FM, WXAJ-FM and Channel1450.com in Springfield and WBBE-FM, WWHX-FM and WIHN-FM in Bloomington to Woodward Communications, Inc. This transaction marks the final sale of the divestiture […]
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Terrie Malmstrom opens Doggie Stylez
Terrie Malmstrom has been in the pet grooming business for years, but now she has a new venture called Doggie Stylez. “I owned Bubbles of Fun Pet Grooming for more than 10 years and sold it in 2017,” Malmstrom said. “I was going to semi-retire, and I actually moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.” However, Malmstrom’s […]
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Wildflowers and Barley opening hat-burning studio
Katelyn Klos and Grace Kennedy are turning their hobby of hat burning into a brick-and-mortar business. “My business partner and I are both science majors; she’s a biologist and I’m a biochemist,” said Klos. She explained that the business got its start when Kennedy “made herself a custom denim jacket, and then other people started […]
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Magnolia Lane moving to Chatham
Magnolia Lane Home Décor and More is preparing to relocate again, this time to Chatham. Marci Ridle purchased the business, originally known as 6th Street Home Décor and More, in April 2013 and moved into 3600 S. Sixth St. in July of that year. The business sells new and gently used furniture and home décor, […]
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Aunt Lou’s Soul Food opening downtown
Aunt Lou’s Soul Food is opening Friday, more than a year after Corey Dickerson first announced he was teaming up with Smarjesse Taylor to bring “modern soul food with a classy touch” to downtown. “There were a lot of issues with the city,” Dickerson said, who noted that his landlord, Rick Lawrence, has had ongoing […]
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Rebuilding the Catholic Church
Imagine a place where pupils study Aristotle and also learn how to plane boards. San Damiano College for the Trades will do just that. The future central Illinois school just hired its first president, Kent Lasnoski, who is moving to Springfield from Wyoming, where he led another Catholic college. He hopes to open the doors […]