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Greenville has passed laws providing for two Tax increment financing districts in the hopes of drawing more businesses.
Notable businesses in the town include Nevco Scoreboards,8 the largest privately held manufacturer of scoreboards in the world.9 DeMoulin Bros.1 is one of the world's largest makers of band uniforms; the company's collections were visited by the magician David Copperfield. Other large employers include Carlisle-Syntec,10 Bass-Mollett Publishers, and Federal Correctional Institution Greenville, a federal prison.
In October 2006, Kansas-based Alternative Energy Sources Incorporated announced that they would locate an ethanol plant in Greenville. The plant will be built on 100 acres in the John W. Kelsey Business & Technology Park.3 Nevco announced in late 2006 that it would move its headquarters from its location on Harris Avenue to an area within the Kelsey Technology Park.7
Greenville Regional Hospital,11 called Utlaut Memorial Hospital until 2005, has consistently been ranked by Solucient as one of the top 100 best small hospitals in the nation. Greenville also has an assisted living facility, the Glenwood.7
The town's media includes "The Best Country in the Country," radio station WGEL, and the Greenville Advocate, a newspaper which is printed twice-weekly.
Greenville Airport and Governor Bond Lake serve the hobbyists in the are
Historic Greenville businesses include the Helvetia milk factory, which would later turn into a PET Milk factory, shoe manufacturer Mayer and Bannister, cigar manufacturers Thomas D. Scheske and H.H. Wirz, and glove factory the Greenville Glove Manufacturing Co.4 In the early 1900s, Greenville had its own power company, Greenville Electric Gas and Power Company, which later was bought by Illinois Power and Light Service.The Watson family operated a pharmacy in Greenville for over 125 years, since 1881; it was sold in 2006, but still maintains the name Watson's Drug Store. Greenville once had a silent movie theatre, the Lyric, and now has a first-run movie theatre, the Globe. While Greenville once hosted three newspapers, The Item, The Sun, and The Advocate, it now has only the twice-weekly Advocate.
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