BusinessSPRINGFIELD July 2021 JOURNAL Great House BBQ expanding to downtown PERMIT NO 209 NO PERMIT SPRINGFIELD, IL SPRINGFIELD, 2021 Forty Under 40 PAID U.S. POSTAGE U.S. Springfi eld Business Journal • July 2021 • Page 1 PRSRT STD PRSRT Page 2 • July 2021 • Springfi eld Business Journal Springfi eld Business Journal • July 2021 • Page 3 In this issue: SBJ articles 6 8 34 Q&A with Mike O’Shea 2021 Forty Under 40 Organizations benefi t from increasing diversity by Lana Shovlin By Carey Smith 30 217 Buy Black Directory Columns 44 Ask an attorney By Sarah Delano Pavlik 50 Professional development By Kristina Barbee 46 Medical news 54 Restaurant review By Thomas C. Pavlik Jr. 48 Philanthropy By Janet Seitz 52 Calendar 28 56 New businesses Great House BBQ expanding to downtown Opening second location, plus nightclub and event space Cover photo by Norma Zuniga Page 4 • July 2021 • Springfi eld Business Journal You don’t know what you don’t know I’ve loved reading and writing since I was a kid, so it really wasn’t a stretch for me to decide to major in English when I went away to college. After I graduated and moved to Springfi eld, I started getting involved with a number of nonprofi t organizations and decided to enroll in a master’s program for nonprofi t management at University Editor: Fletcher Farrar of Illinois Springfi eld, once I learned a program like that even existed. Over the last 10
[email protected] years, as I have become increasingly involved in my neighborhood’s redevelopment Publisher: Michelle Ownbey eff orts, I’ve jokingly told people that I should have majored in urban planning.