Trip throughout the world starts here Print

The area is home to national companies making products that are in almost every household in the country –  two of the town’s largst employers among them: Hefty bags and other products by Reynolds Consumer Products, and Coffee-mate coffee creamer by NestlĂ© USA.

Other manufacturing operations come in all sizes and many of them are locally owned. Celanese in nearby Meredosia makes starch products supplying a variety of firms; Brahler Trucking produces tires for truckers; and the town’s two binderies, Bound to Stay Bound Books and Perma-Bound, provide books and services for the educational market.

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Sowing seeds of economy Print

Agriculture has traditionally been the backbone of the local economy, and it still is, in many ways.

The dark black dirt of the Jacksonville area produces some of the best yields in the world and competes for the highest yields in the state -- in excess of 200 bushels an acre for corn. (The same rich, black loam can make for spectacular gardens and flower beds, too.)

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Solid avenues link region to world Print

Jacksonville’s transportation grid combines road, rail and river into a network to supply the entire nation.

Interstate 72 provides a direct path to the East Coast and connects with Interstate 55 about 30 miles away to
provide direct routes to Chicago, St. Louis and points north, south and west.
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Region develops strength in variety Print

Transportation, a willing workforce with Midwestern values and a warm, friendly atmosphere make the Jacksonville area a prime location for commerce.

The area’s top employers show the variety of industries that can prosper in Jacksonville with an educated, stable workforce and land development costs well below the state average. 

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Jacksonville-Area Top Employers Print

Passavant Area Hospital
895
Reynolds Consumer Products
800
Jacksonville School District
700
Jacksonville Correctional Facility
488
Jacksonville Developmental Center
450
Perma-Bound
425
Blue Cross Blue Shield
300
Bound to Stay Bound
260
Illinois School for the Deaf
250
Illinois College
248
Computer Sciences Corporation
240
Celanese
219
Nestle USA
207
MacMurray College
160
Source: JREDC


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