Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 7

89 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 7 DI XON, I LL INOI S Founded in Dixon in 1935, Willett, Hofmann & Associates, Inc. (WHA) is a multi-disciplinary engineering, land surveying and architectural design firm with a long-standing history with the City of Dixon. WHA is proud to be part of the Dixon Community and is a proud supporter of projects and activities that improve the quality of life in Dixon. Over the past 85 years, WHA has provided professional design services to the City for numerous infrastructure projects including road maintenance projects, drainage improvements projects, site development projects, including the design of five blocks of downtown streetscape improvements and the design of the reconstruction of River Street with a shared use path with decorative lighting along the Rock River. WHA has also designed upgrades to City’s water and sewer systems, including radium removal facilities at the City’s potable water wells. WHA has also provided the design of various architectural improvements for the City including renovations at Dixon City Hall, the Dixon Public Library and the design of the Veterans Memorial Park. WHA is honored to part of the history of Dixon and is dedicated to be part of the City’s bright future. WHA is headquartered in Dixon and has five other offices located across Northern Illinois and one office in Iowa. ...... For more information, please visit our website www.willetthofmann.com the developers has a concept for, or a brew pub which another developer is really interested in, with some residential right nearby on the river. We want some additional commercial strips for downtown and, of course, a big greenspace in the floodplain to allow people to play, have family events, and use the shared use path.” KSB Hospital has been a key part of Dixon since 1897, when Solomon Bethea donated land and money to the city to finance a hospital in memory of his late wife, Katherine Shaw Bethea. Today, KSB serves the community and surrounding areas and is one of Dixon’s major employers, with close to 1000 employees in the main hospital and surrounding clinics. “They are not part of a bigger hospital chain, which is getting rarer and rarer,” says Arellano. “Everybody from their CEO down is based out of Dixon, and all of their satellites hub out of Dixon. The rural communities have local clinics, but Dixon is their main hospital hub. That is one of the major anchors for our downtown, which has helped