The McLean County Chamber of Commerce is hosting a walk-up job fair Thursday, June 3, as Bloomington-Normal employers seek to fill more than 1,200 job openings.
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Bloomington-Normal hotels saw a $25 million drop in revenue over the last year with the pandemic drastically reducing travel.
Ray Ceresa is president of the Bloomington-Normal Hotel and Lodging Association. He s also general manager of the DoubleTree by Hilton in Bloomington. The hotel has had to cut nearly 40 jobs since the pandemic began.
Ceresa said it s been so bad, one of the best things to happen to local hotels recently was a big power outage.
“During the peak of all those repairs, there were up to 900 Ameren employees or contractors here in town that filled a lot of the hotels here in town, including mine which was a nice surprise,” Ceresa said.