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"It's All About Southwestern Madison County." The Chamber of Commerce of Southwestern Madison County is proud to welcome you to our community. The Chamber is fortunate to represent a very diverse area that includes the cities of Granite City, Madison, Venice, the Village of Pontoon Beach, and the unincorporated area known as Mitchell.
Located a day's travel by horseback from the City of St. Louis, southwestern Madison County became a way station in the mid-1800's and was settled primarily by middle European immigrants. Even today, their descendents form the backbone of our community. Because of our proximity to St. Louis and having an abundant and skilled workforce, southwestern Madison County soon became one of the major industrial areas in the Midwest. Even today, when many communities are losing their industries, we retain a strong industrial base that includes US Steel's Granite City Works and the World-wide headquarters of ASF Keystone. In addition, our location, which puts us within a 500 radius of one-third of the population of the United States, and gives us direct access to the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois river corridors, four major interstate highways and most of the major rail lines and provides direct access to all points in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, is making us a fast growing distribution point. Add to this award winning parks, exemplary school systems, low crime rates, excellent emergency services, top notch health care facilities, a small town atmosphere with close proximity to the entertainment centers of St. Louis, make Southwestern Madison County a great place to live, work, and play. *************************************************************************** We truly encourage you to please read the letters below and put them on your stationary and mail to our Sentators as soon as possible. H.R. 3415 Legislation is critical to the economic growth & development of this area. Letter to Senator Roland Burris | Letter to Senator Richard Durbin ***************************************************************************
The Ambassadors Committee is the face of the Chamber. This newly organized committee has over 35 Chamber representatives that call on each of our members. Each of these Chamber Ambassadors have chosen 5 to 7 of our smaller businesses to contact on a regular basis, to build a relationship with, to invite them to events, to find out their needs and to bring them back to their Committee. These 35 members serve as the point of contact and as the Chamber's conduit, a priceless service to the Chamber and to the business community as a whole.
The Chamber welcomes Bob Kmetz - Prairie Farms to the Executive Board. The Chamber also welcomes new Board Members: Lenny Batycki - Gateway International Raceway, Steve Burdge - Medicine Shoppe, Craig Kramer - Abengoa Bio-Energy, Zachary Miller - Gateway Packaging, Robert Parnell - Gateway Energy & Coke Company, James Scheer - Arizon Structures, Terry Stieve - Colliers-Turley-Martin & Tucker, Charles Unger - TheBANK of Edwardsville, Richard Veitch - U.S. Steel Granite City Works.
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