Earlier this month, State Senator Chapin Rose was excited to help introduce the beginnings of what could be ground breaking industry in Illinois.
The State of Illinois approved an investment into the Bioprocessing Research Lab, or IBLR, at hte University of Illinois. Sen. Rose indicates this will create up to 20-thousand jobs in the state and would impact almost every area of central Illinois.
Sen. Rose says the rich, fertile farm ground of DeWitt and Piatt Counties is giong to be vital in this new operation.
While the lab in Champaign is still under construction, he says the industry and job growth locally should happen gradually over the next decade.
