Healthcare | Headquarters | www.choosememorial.org
One of the leading healthcare organizations in Illinois, Memorial Health of Springfield is a community-based, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to patient care, education and research.
Our more than 6,700 staff members, partnering physicians and hundreds of volunteers are dedicated to improving the health of the communities we have served since 1897. In a year, we serve an average of more than 40,000 inpatients, more than 667,000 outpatients and more than 125,000 patients in our four Emergency Departments. Our highly skilled team has a passion for excellence and is dedicated to providing a great patient experience for every patient every time.
Healthcare | Headquarters | www.hshs.org
Since 1875, the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis have been caring for patients in Illinois, Wisconsin and other locations in the United States and across the world. Today, Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is a multi-institutional health care system that cares for patients in 14 communities in Illinois and Wisconsin.
With 15 hospitals, scores of community-based health centers and clinics, nearly 2,300 physician partners, and more than 15,000 colleagues, HSHS is committed to its mission “to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through our high quality Franciscan health care ministry.”
HSHS continues to advance its mission through its care integration strategy by working closely with physician partners in Illinois and Wisconsin to deliver high quality, patient-centered care. Together, we strive to ensure each patient who enters our system has seamless access to health and wellness programs, primary and specialty care, and acute and post-acute care.
Through their commitment to our care integration strategy, HSHS physician partners coordinate closely with our hospital and clinic colleagues to provide our patients with holistic care that meets their individual needs.
By leveraging the latest technology, emphasizing the importance of relationships, and living its values, HSHS is making a positive difference in the lives of the patients and families it is privileged to serve.
Healthcare | Headquarters | www.springfieldclinic.com
Springfield Clinic is a forward-thinking, physician-led multispecialty medical group devoted to providing the highest quality health care to its patients. More than 650 physicians and advanced practitioners deliver care in approximately 80 medical specialties and sub-specialties serving more than 20 counties reaching more than 500,000 patients in the greater central Illinois area. As one of the largest private multispecialty medical clinics in the state, Springfield Clinic currently employs over 3,500 clinical and administrative staff members who are committed to improving health, providing value and serving the community.
Insurance | Headquarters | www.horacemann.com
Horace Mann was founded in 1945 by two Springfield, Illinois, teachers who saw a need for quality, affordable auto insurance for teachers. Since then, we’ve broadened our mission to helping all educators protect what they have today and prepare for a successful tomorrow. And with our broadened mission has come corporate growth: We serve more than 4,100 school districts nationwide, we’re publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: HMN) and we have more than $12 billion in assets.
We’re motivated by the fact that educators take care of our children’s future, and we believe they deserve someone to look after theirs. We help educators identify their financial goals and develop plans to achieve them. This includes insurance to protect what they have today and financial products to help them prepare for their future. Our tailored offerings include special rates and benefits for educators.
Insurance | www.bcbsil.com
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) has served the people of Illinois since 1936. We are the largest and most experienced health insurance company in the state, providing more than 8.1 million members with comprehensive and affordable health plans. While health care evolves rapidly across the nation, our dedication to the people and Illinois communities we serve won't change. We are your friends, your families, and your neighbors. We will always take pride in investing in our communities' needs and give our time and talents to help make Illinois a better place.
Manufacturing | Headquarters | www.bunn.com
Since 1957, Bunn-O-Matic Corporation (BUNN®) has been at the forefront of dispensed beverage equipment manufacturers. Founded upon five generations of family entrepreneurship, BUNN has become a global partner you can count on for reliable beverage equipment and outstanding post-purchase support wherever customers are served. The BUNN core values of honesty, integrity, and courtesy have created a global network of loyal commercial and home customers who are served by the company's brand promise, A Partner You Can Count On™.
Finance | www.wellsfargo.com
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.9 trillion
in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through 7,400 locations, more than 13,000 ATMs, the internet and mobile banking, and has offices in 32 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 260,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 29 on Fortune’s 2019 rankings of America’s largest corporations.
Non-Profit | www.hope.us
Founded in 1957, Hope is an educational innovator for individuals with disabilities which grew from a residential campus in Springfield and has since expanded to become so much more. We now impact thousands of children who represent a broad spectrum of learning styles and abilities. Through our multi-state outpatient Autism Clinics providing ABA therapy and diagnostics, our academies in Chicago and Springfield, our residential program, and our clinical expertise provided through the Illinois Crisis Prevention Network, Hope has been able to pioneer cutting edge interventions that support individuals to achieve optimally, regardless of socioeconomic background, learning style, or disability. The individuals we serve enjoy improved learning outcomes, increased confidence, independence and a greater appreciation for differences.
Transportation | www.firsttransit.com
First Transit, Inc. supplies precision, efficiency, innovation, and all-around expertise to both public and private transportation systems. For 60 years, First Transit has had hands-on experience with nearly every facet of transportation operations, maintenance, and administration. As the nation’s leading provider of public transportation contracting and management services, we know transit.
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, First Transit operates in more than 300 locations, carrying 350 million passengers annually throughout North America in 39 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, India, Panama and 4 Canadian provinces.
First Transit’s business practices are designed to offer exceptional customer service, an award-winning safety program and the highest satisfaction that comes from quality throughout our operations.
Technology | Headquarters | www.lrs.com
LRS is a global technology leader with several different business divisions. We employ more than 900 people throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. We continue to grow year after year.
All our divisions came about, in one way or another, as a result of our origins as a consulting company. At first glance, the different divisions may seem disconnected, but in reality, each one was an organic expansion of our work in the IT industry. More than 35 years later, LRS is the solid, diverse and growing company that remains headquartered on Monroe Street in Springfield with many offices across the globe.
Coal Mining & Shipping | www.archcoal.com/aboutus/viper.aspx
U.S.-based Arch Coal is a leading coal producer and marketer, with 96 million tons of coal sold in 2017. We have two distinct but complementary lines of business. We produce high-quality metallurgical coal for sale in the global steel market, and we produce highly cost-competitive thermal coal, primarily in the PRB, for sale into the domestic and international power generation markets.
Arch is a well-positioned American coal company with large, modern, low-cost mining complexes and high-quality reserves in strategic U.S. coal supply basins. In total, we represent over 13% of America’s coal supply from our active mining complexes in West Virginia, Wyoming, Colorado and Illinois.
Finance/Banking | Headquarters | www.ucbbank.com
United Community Bank (UCB) is a $2.5 billion bank operating seven bank brands with more than 100 bank and ATM locations in 33 communities.
Headquartered in Chatham, Illinois, UCB is employee-owned and managed, and does not answer to any out-of-state management or shareholder group. This allows us to make smart decisions that provide the best possible products and services for our customers. Our local management philosophy and corporate stewardship extend to each of the communities our banks, our employees, and our customers, call home!
UCB traces its roots back to 1907, when Farmer’s State Bank was established in Greenfield, IL. In 1973, a local group invested in Farmer's State Bank with the goal of delivering the ultimate customer service while continuing to welcome other banks in central, southern, and western Illinois into the United Community Bank family.
Today, our United Community Banks include: United Community Bank, Brown County State Bank, Golden State Bank, Marine Bank & Trust, Mercantile Bank, Farmers State Bank of Camp Point, and Liberty Bank.
Healthcare | www.lincolnprairiebhc.com
Lincoln Prairie Behavioral Health Center, located in Springfield, Illinois, is dedicated to providing youth with compassionate mental health treatment that encourages self-responsibility and personal growth. We are the only facility of our kind in Central Illinois.
We provide psychiatric treatment to children and adolescents that present with a broad range of psychiatric and behavioral disorders. A clinically skilled multidisciplinary team works to partner with the youth and family to accomplish their goals in a supportive and therapeutic environment.
Finance/Banking | Headquarters | www.inb.com
At INB, formerly Illinois National Bank, we are more than personal loans and CD rates. We are more than savings bonds and current mortgage rates and digital banking.
At INB, we are a community of people serving the communities around us. Based in Abe Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, IL, we make it a business practice to understand what our communities in central Illinois and St. Louis want and need. We learn about each of our markets and their goals, and then we work with local business leaders and individual community members to meet those goals.
Being a community bank means local decision-making happens quickly and efficiently. It means that your banker knows your name and your commercial lender meets you for coffee. It means that our people invest back into the communities they live in year-round to make them better places to live and work. You'll find our staff chairing community boards, working at the local food bank, and helping the children of our community through organizations like the Boys and Girl Scouts. We also provide financial support to hundreds of organizations through event sponsorship.
At INB, we are more than finances – more than a loan calculator or a credit card. Our goal is to assure our community is strong and that each of our customers lives a financially sound life. To do that, we offer mortgage loans, checking accounts, savings accounts, and even tax services and wealth planning. We even provide custom solutions to businesses and municipalities through our Treasury Services team. We're even home to the largest remittance center in downstate Illinois.
We are stability, peace of mind, and commitment. At INB, we are a community.
Manufacturing | www.standardaero.com
Founded in 1911, StandardAero has become one of the world aerospace industry’s largest independent maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) providers. Our company’s success is the outgrowth of the synergistic merger of businesses with complementary specialties that have exponentially increased our capabilities and generated unprecedented customer commitment and value.
StandardAero offers extensive MRO services and custom solutions for business aviation, commercial aviation, military and industrial power customers. More than 6,400 professional, administrative and technical employees work in 40+ major facilities around the world, with additional strategically located regional service and support centers all across the globe.
Services include MRO for aircraft and rotorcraft engines, auxiliary power units and components; airframe services including major alterations; FAA authorized avionics capabilities; comprehensive engineering services; and custom exterior and interior design, completion and paint. We provide these capabilities through our network of specialized facilities and mobile service teams.
StandardAero is owned by The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across four business segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit and Investment Solutions.With $222 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2019. Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of our investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which we live and invest.
Agribusiness | Headquarters | www.brandt.co
BRANDT is proud to be known as one of the fastest-growing, family-owned companies in the United States. Since 1953, the Brandt family and its employees have remained true to a philosophy planted deep in the company’s midwestern roots and forged by an American spirit that focuses on a commitment to quality people and quality products.
Whether you grow soybeans or sugar cane, corn or cotton, or pomegranates and pineapple, BRANDT is focused on helping you take control of your bottom line. With more than 250 products, BRANDT is preferred by farmers who grow everything from row crops to fruit to vegetables to turf and ornamentals. BRANDT products are sold in 48 U.S. states and more than 45 countries.
BRANDT offers the products, knowledge and customer service to help make its business partners at home and around the world successful. By taking care of its customers, near and far, BRANDT helps families, farms and communities ensure a safe, secure supply of fiber, fuel, and food.
Finance/Banking | Headquarters | www.bankwithbos.com
With a focus on community, Jack A. Marantz founded BOS in Springfield, Illinois in 1965. Today, the tradition continues under the leadership of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Tom Marantz.
From our roots as a neighborhood bank on Springfield’s southeast side, BOS has grown to 13 full-service branches. You can find us in Springfield, Jacksonville, Chatham, Quincy, Swansea, Shiloh, Glen Carbon, and Staunton, IL and Brentwood, MO. As we continue to expand operations, you have our promise to remain privately held and responsive to your needs.
Manufacturing | www.nudo.com
Today, Nudo is owned by Grupo Verzatec, an international company with headquarters in Monterrey, Mexico, and the parent company of Stabilit America. Stabilit is one of the leading manufacturers of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) products, produced in Moscow, TN and Monterrey, Mexico, and marketed in the United States under its Glasteel brand.