Many students graduating from high school are pretty excited to go off to college. They believe it’s finally the time that they’ll be free from their parents and life will be so much easier. What students often don’t understand is…
Mika’s Bistro in Eureka and Henry’s Farm in Congerville are collaborating to host a special farm-to-table harvest supper featuring chef-prepared food from local farms. The dinner will include a five-course meal with fresh, organic ingredients from Henry’s Farm and…
“Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Your Environment” is the topic of the sixth annual Robert A. Flinn, M.D., Endowed Lectureship Series scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 21 at Jump Simulation, 1306 N. Berkeley Ave., Peoria. Presenting the lecture will be…
SPRINGFIELD – The ancient Biblical practice of gleaning fields after harvest to collect remnants of food for the hungry is spreading from fields to markets, and a newly enhanced federal tax benefit is incentivizing the practice for farmers. In the…
Beyond a grassy ridge from a tree-covered bandshell, carnival rides twinkle and sparkle in the humid evening, calliope music tinkling softly. It could be almost any year in the last century. The louder music exploding from six Marshall amps…
UPDATE: Judge Albert Purham orders appointment of special prosecutor to review Cleve Heidelberg case from 1970. Steve Heidelberg remembers nothing from the 1970 murder trial of his father Cleve Heidelberg, but he now sees some of the legacy that trial…
The Fresh Food Van makes regular stops throughout Peoria much like the ice cream trucks of decades past. But unlike the Good Humor truck, there is no need for a bell to alert nearby residents. They know the schedule. On…
BY GEORGE HOPKINS The vacant shop’s windows blare a message to the old town square in tiny Cuba, Illinois —“Lost Dreams! Broken Heart! Must Sell!” Like many once-thriving downstate market towns, this Fulton County hamlet is a pretty place, with…
BY CLARE HOWARD Throughout history, one of the universal tools of repression has been denying access to education. It’s an inhuman and dirty strategy followed by the Iranian government against people of the Baha’i faith. In total opposition to that…
Attorneys for Cleve Heidelberg, incarcerated since 1970, remain convinced of his innocence in the murder of a white Peoria County sheriff’s deputy, and they want Peoria County State’s Attorney Jerry Brady removed from the case and replaced with an independent…
