SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Religion is big business in the state capital when it comes to bringing in convention and tourism dollars.
Between now and the summer of 2015, nearly 20 conferences and conventions are planned in Springfield, and those are just the events handled through the Convention and Visitors Bureau.
They include next month's Rapture Forums Prophecy Conference, which is expected to draw about 400 people. Then there's the American Baptist Association's gathering in June 2015, which could see 2,000 participants.
Bureau sales manager Dawn Bernardes tells The (Springfield) State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/1n7UDJ3 ) the competition for religious conferences is no different than that for other conventions.
She says they like the city's affordability and history.
Interim Bureau director Gina Gemberling says it's a market in which the city has had a lot of success.
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