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Program:
Community leaders across Illinois work to make sure that their region is attractive to business owners, executives and other professionals who are responsible for finding locations to locate or expand their businesses. University of Illinois Extension Local Government Education’s site-selection webinar series covers the latest from professionals engaged in searching for and selecting sites here in Illinois.
Join us on July 27, at 12 PM CT, for insights from Ameren’s Cheryl Welge, a member of Ameren Illinois's Economic Development leadership team. Ms. Welge will share a detailed presentation of the site selection process in Illinois, offering her expertise on capacity requirements from the site selector’s perspective.
About the Speaker:
As a member of Ameren Illinois's Economic Development leadership team, Cheryl Welge manages the attraction team which is charged with supporting community, regional and state partners to seek out and respond to new business opportunities throughout the 43,000 square mile service territory in central and southern Illinois. Her responsibilities include development and implementation of Ameren’s business-development strategy to create and sustain economic growth, and support public strategy, community stewardship, and corporate-wide business-development programs. Ms. Welge has more than 30 years of experience in utility economic development and has been with the Ameren Economic Development Department since 1998.
A resident of rural Montgomery County, Cheryl is a graduate of both Lincoln Land Community College and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, having earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma's Economic Development Institute in April 1999 and became a Business Retention & Expansion International (BREI) certified BR&E Consultant in 2003. Cheryl is a Past Chairman of the Illinois Development Council.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this webinar, please contact Mike Delany at mdelany2@illinois.edu. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet access needs.
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