People In Business

St. Louis-based Byrne & Jones Construction Inc. is expanding operations with the launch of a new Parks Division. The division will design, engineer and install recreational spaces and amenities for state, county and municipal governments and schools. Recreational consultant Ben Brown will lead business development efforts for the division, which employs seven dedicated team members,…

HSHS Medical Group has welcomed back Fadi Siyam, MD, endocrinologist, to its medical team. Siyam sees patients at Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at HSHS Medical Group – O’Fallon, located at 775 Sunset Blvd., Suite B, in O’Fallon, Ill. Siyam specializes in disorders of the endocrine system, including diabetes, metabolic and nutritional conditions, pituitary diseases, calcium…

  Members of the Realtor Association of Southwestern Illinois Leadership Learning Institute, Board of Directors, and Community Involvement Task Force joined forces with St. Clair County Transit District and AARP in St. Louis, to help Citizens for Modern Transit with a transit stop transformation project at the Emerson Park Metro-Link Station in East St. Louis.…

To continue to provide a safe and secure campus environment, the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Police Department has added four officers to its squad. The new members of the force bring prior experience as police officers and 911 dispatchers from the Metro East area. The officers were sworn in Friday, Aug. 20 by SIUE Chief…

West Star Aviation promoted Toliver Lasswell as the new Embraer project manager at its East Alton facility on the grounds of St. Louis Regional Airport. Toliver has over 10 years of aviation experience, with seven of those years spent at West Star, starting in Line Services and moving to Citation as AMT. “Toliver shows great…

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumnus Zach Wygal is a teacher on a mission to help end the  issue of lunch shaming. Many U.S. schools are affected by lunch shaming, a term used to describe situations in which students are publicly singled out and stigmatized during lunch. To pressure parents into paying delinquent bills, schools sometimes…

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. says Best Lawyers has listed 60 of the firm’s attorneys, including three as St. Louis “Lawyers of the Year,” in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America legal industry peer review guide. In addition, the 2022 publication lists 17 Greensfelder attorneys as “Ones to Watch” promising young lawyers.…

BETHALTO – The board of directors at 1st MidAmerica Credit Union has elected Rose Gibson as its new board chair. Gibson, who joined the board in 2006, previously served as vice chair and is a Certified Credit Union Board Member by the Credit Union National Association. “I became a member of the credit union in…

Christine Taylor, MD, a board-certified Obstetrics & Gynecology physician, is joining Alton OB/GYN Associates, located in Suite 125 of Medical Office Building B on the Alton Memorial Hospital campus. Taylor begins Sept. 1 and accepts patients 13 years and older. She provides comprehensive obstetric and gynecological care, including well-woman exams, prenatal care and delivery, menopausal…

Fifteen Southwestern Illinois-based entrepreneurs and their innovative business concepts have been selected to move into the second round of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s 8th annual Metro East Startup Challenge. The Metro East Startup Challenge welcomes entrepreneurs and new businesses from a nine-county area of Southwestern Illinois, and this year expanded to include Fayette and Montgomery…