{"id":509,"date":"2026-05-01T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/?p=509"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:17:26","slug":"keeping-southwestern-illinois-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Southwestern Illinois in the spotlight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had the tremendous opportunity to serve on the Board of the Southwestern Illinois Leadership Council since 2018. The Council is organization of over 230 local CEOs that focus on all matters and issues related to the SW IL region and how best to attract families, top talent, and the best companies to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Leadership Council just finished a six month branding effort for the Southwestern Illinois region and launched their new website, link included below. It turned out great and is a comprehensive site with links to local demographic, business, governmental, and general regional information.\u00a0 All great stuff that can readily accessed by businesses, families and others looking for homes, opportunities, and activities in Southwestern Illinois!<\/p>\n<p>Sean Goding, President<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/envisionsouthwesternillinois.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/envisionsouthwesternillinois.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">https:\/\/envisionsouthwesternillinois.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had the tremendous opportunity to serve on the Board of the Southwestern Illinois Leadership Council since 2018. The Council is organization of over 230 local CEOs that focus on all matters and issues related to the SW IL region and how best to attract families, top talent, and the best companies to the area. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/?p=509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keeping Southwestern Illinois in the spotlight&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pangeadevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}