City celebrated with huge parade stretching six miles long a century ago this September. And now, Peoria County gearing up for its Bicentennial celebration
Co-curators Darius Donaldson and Farai Kasambira discuss tricked-out autos and their exhibit “Built: American Custom Car Culture” on display at the Peoria Riverfront Museum
Area establishments are again offering plant-based dishes all April so go out and vote for the ones you like best. Try it, you’ll like it!
From nursing school to serving in the Philippines during World War II to earning her pilot’s license, Nora Leman, 101, has had quite a life serving our nation
Poll: New strains of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza are prey to conspiracy theories just like with COVID
Take care: HPAI virus strains are now a part of ‘our new normal.’ We will need to adapt our agricultural practices to meet this new challenge. We can only hope that wild bird populations will build some type of immunity, or that the virus evolves to be less lethal to its host.
United States sagging in middle of the pack as far as participation in the electoral process: Peoria County has about 135,265 people age-eligible to vote, and since the Peoria Election Commission reports 117,217 registered voters, more than 18,000 Peoria County adults are not even registered.
So, has the world changed, and what was lost now forgotten? Could those things have stayed the same and only forgotten? Maybe those things weren’t forgotten, only reimagined and introduced to a new generation.
Christmas Bird Count reveals 75 species and 10,396 birds as it reminds us of ebbs and flows of our planet’s history
State task force recommends highlighting state’s history in fighting slavery because ‘more freedom seekers came through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio than ever went up the East Coast. But that set of stories has never been fully told.”
