A business with DeWitt County ties was recently recognized by the State of Illinois for being exclusively female-owned.

 

Prairie Fire Sprinkler, owned by Lisa Peacock, who's husband Lee is a DeWitt County native, is now an Illinois-certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE), meaning the company can help other area businesses fulfill Illinois’ diversity business-building goals while it works to protect life and limb.

 

Prairie Fire Sprinkler Project Manager Lee Peacock, Lisa’s husband of just under 20 years, brings two decades of combined experience in management, sprinkler system drafting and design.

 

Lee is a native of Kenney and attended Clinton High School.

 

While Lisa is thankful for the WBE certification, she asserts her assets are rooted more in her aptitudes than her gender. She has long excelled at math and science, and savors their nexus in engineering. These strengths serve her current pursuit extremely well. 

 

The couple's business installed the sprinkler system for the new Save A Lot location last year.