Business View Magazine | June 2019

353 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 EDWARDSV I LLE , I LL INOI S Patton adds that there are a lot of other things happening in this vibrant, mid-western city. “We have a publicly-owned theater, the Wildey Theater, that’s an active part of our downtown. It has live bands and acts and musicals that will play on the weekends. During the week, it has movies and things such as wedding receptions and bridal showers, and so forth. The restaurant scene is very positive in the summer. We host a farmers market, the Goshen Market, which will average over 2,000 visitors on Saturday, which makes it very a popular place to bring your pet and bring your family and grab breakfast after shopping for some fresh fruit and vegetables.” One of the other things benefiting Edwardsville is having the fastest growing public university in the state of Illinois, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Located on 2,660 acres, the SIUE campus is one of the largest college campuses in the United States. The student population has grown over its parent campus in Carbondale, and is now the larger of the two, having about 14,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs.