Arts Alerts: Check out what’s going on in central Illinois

Visit “Organized Beyond Recognition” by Harry William Sidebotham II at the Follow Your Arts Gallery and Crystal Potthoff’s “Breaking Free” at Artful Journey Gallery. Peoria Players “Young Frankenstein” and “Til Beth Do Us Part” is showing at the Barn III in Goodfield plus ICC Theatre presents Shakespeare’s comedy “Love’s Labor’s Lost” and Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest” will be staged at Corn Stock

Emily Gill: Shameful attack on immigration

Emily Gill

Unpalatable policies carried out by the Trump regime are not targeting ‘worst of worst’ criminals.

First, being in the U.S. without proper documentation is not a crime, but a civil offense; second, ICE detaining immigrants with proper paperwork, third, even when participating in the system; and, fourth, these arrests have been brutal

5 questions for Leslie Danage

A ‘small-town girl’ from McLeansboro turned teacher in Peoria leads Local 780 of the Peoria Federation of Teachers, an AFL-CIO union representing about 1,000 workers — one of area’s biggest unions