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Longtime business leaders, advocates and volunteers were honored during the 126th annual gathering of the Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce Friday evening. The event was held at Emporia State Universitys

Clark Carpet & Tile, Inc. will be recognized as the 2023 Business of the Year during the 126th annual meeting of the Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce.

If you had asked cosmopolitan Springfieldians in 1990 or so to name the Springfield parking ramp designed by flamboyant German American architect Helmut Jahn, most would have pointed to the municipal ramp at Seventh and Monroe. As built in 1967, its louvered façade of precast concrete slats made it one of the handsomest structures of any kind in the capital. They would have been wrong. The city ramp was the work of Springfields Ferry & Henderson with Ralph Hahn and Associates. A block up ...