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Article: Spring Valley, Ill., Location Helps Attract Businesses.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 31, 2001
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By Steve Tarter, Journal Star, Peoria, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 31--SPRING VALLEY, Ill.--Spring Valley may be a river town, but it's the proximity to major highways that floats the area chamber of commerce boat.
This Bureau County town of 5,200 is located near the interchange of Interstates 80 and 39, which Barb Koch, director of the Illinois Valley Area Chamber of Commerce, said helps attract business.
"I-39 provides connecting access from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, plus we intersect with I-80, which runs east- west, giving business the opportunity to go in any direction," she said. "We've had quite a bit of success ...