Springfield Buy Local Month encourages support for our member businesses and organizations during the holiday season. Buy Local Month...

By Ben Sgro Sgro, Hanrahan, Durr & Rabin, LLP The economic engine of Illinois came to a grinding halt at 9:00 p.m. on March 16, 2020....

By Donna Skowronski Rogers HR Consulting With the IL Workplace Transparency Act training deadline at the end of this last quarter of 2020...

The Storyteller Studios team is expanding due to the demand for video for use in marketing businesses and organizations across the...

Local First Springfield crowned 11 award winners during a virtual celebration last night. Local First Springfield is a nonprofit made up...

The Salted Lemon Market & Creamery, a member of the Three Twigs Group, opens its doors to the public on Wednesday, September 16. The...

Businesses have had to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep their customers and employees safe. Many have either added online...

Local First Springfield member, Pease’s will launch a month-long promotion benefitting four local non-profit organizations. Pease’s at...

Owners of Revive Wellness And Massage Spa, Cortney Spencer, and Chiffonia White, celebrated one year in business in March, just as...

As our third annual Local First Springfield Awards are fast approaching, we want to take the opportunity to highlight the 2020 nominees....

Springfield-based video company, The Storyteller Studios, has received a further four Communicator Awards for its work over the past...

Congratulations to our members shortlisted in this year’s Local First Springfield annual awards! We’ll tell you all about our members and...

Serious Lip Balm has launched a campaign featuring small businesses to help them grow during the pandemic. Shop Tiny is a movement...

By Jake Rourke Troxell Despite Covid-19 small businesses are still open to cyberattacks. Only recently, Troxell was informed that scam...

Gem PR & Media We’ve written a lot of award entries since launching Gem PR & Media in the summer of 2013. Clients have won local,...

By Carolyn Pemberton Johnson & Johnson Automotive Coronavirus has changed the way companies operate in an unprecedented manner. As...

By Kevin Lust Director of the Illinois Small Business Development Center at Lincoln Land Community College We had an ice storm across...

By Dushun Hogan President of Cleaning General Janitorial Services Inc. COVID-19, the current virus affecting the entire world, is highly...

What makes a company tick? Plain and simple, people, right? Scott Germeraad of Springfield Electric, great-grandson to the founder of the...

Local First Springfield has launched a digital gift card and – in light of recent events - is giving away $1,500 to support independent...