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The timeline wasn’t in our favor: O’Shea’s work on the new downtown Springfield YMCA started eight weeks behind, due to a delay in regulatory approvals.

As soon as they were able, the younger O’Shea generations helped the family business. By the 1970s, Bud’s children -- David, Maureen, Linda, and Mike -- started working when each was old enough, usually in high school.

It’s rare that a construction project creates awareness for a disease, but that’s what happened in 2012. It was a first for O’Shea.

O’Shea Builders welcomes Haley Enlow, accounts payable specialist. Enlow is based out of the Springfield office.

O’Shea Builders welcomes Niki McDaniels, construction administrator, to our Springfield office.  

It started with an invitation to be a guest speaker, but when Josh Frye realized how much he enjoyed the classroom, he jumped at the chance to teach his own college course at Benedictine University. 

On August 14, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced that the Japanese had surrendered, ending the six-year long World War whose battles covered much of the globe and killed about 405,000 Americans.

Some teachers in the Decatur Public School District were surprised when they showed up to their classrooms in August to prepare for the new school year. 

After 12 years at O’Shea, Kurt Siciliano will start a new adventure in eastern Tennessee, where he plans to build his forever home with his family.

I received the true “O’Shea experience” working as a marketing/business development intern, and it’s an experience that I looked forward to every day this summer. 

It was a college class that helped Scott Kinkade uncover his future career path – which he probably knew all along.

O’Shea employees can agree on at least one thing about personal trainer Bo Bennett: his workouts are never dull.

For 26 years, Steve Hopper has served as O’Shea’s “utility player,” working in a variety of roles, and it’s a one he’s officially retired from. 

After 13 years at O’Shea, Superinten­dent Mike Thomas is retiring.

Nick Sunley spent fall 2019 job shadowing at O’Shea through the Sangamon-Menard Schools’ Multi-Craft Core Curriculum program (MC3). But since we last saw Nick, a lot has happened.