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08/25/2020

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07/23/2020

There is much to gain by letting our officials know our preferences - let your voice be heard as Peoria City Council tackles difficult decisions to balance our budget. Tell them what you think - we will share the results with them.

Let's give helpful feedback to our elected officials as to what we feel are the correct next steps. Please only residents of the City of Peoria participate.

07/02/2020

Please join us and share this with the world. Emerson and her family would love to know all the beautiful things we can globally do to honor sweet Emerson and bring joy to the world 💙

06/16/2020

We opened the poll again - let your voice be heard as Peoria City Council tackles difficult decisions to balance our budget. Tell them what you think - we will share the results with them.

Let's give helpful feedback to our elected officials as to what we feel are the correct next steps. Please only residents of the City of Peoria participate.

05/30/2020

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10/25/2017

The Peorian editor Paul Gordon is back after months on medical leave. He writes about it in his blog, Rated PG. Find it at

Starting over can be a challenge, depending on the circumstances. But in my case, returning to work after nearly eight months on disability, it is a challenge I look forward to facing. Those of you who have followed The Peorian have probably wondered why nothing on the pages have changed...

10/24/2017

Caterpillar had a strong third quarter. Read about it at http://www.peorian.com/news/news/business/2522-cat-q32017 on thepeorian.com

It was one heckuva third quarter for Caterpillar Inc. and the company expects the good financials to continue to the end of the year. Caterpillar on Tuesday reported a third quarter profit of $1.95 a share on revenues of $11.4 billion, well ahead of the numbers posted in the third...

07/18/2017

Molly Crusen Bishop's first piece based the essays about the West Bluff written by her grandfather is on our website today. Read it at

The West Bluff Water Tower Disaster By Charles Needham and Molly Crusen Bishop Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories from Molly Crusen Bishop that will be based on the essays about the West Bluff by her grandfather, Charles Needham. Charles Needham was born to Patrick...

06/03/2017

Check out Molly Crusen Bishop's newest story about her Grandpa Charlie, who witnessed history on Peoria's West Bluff more than a century ago. You can read it at http://www.peorian.com/history/history-news/local-history/2520-molly-grandpa-history

There were two guys named Charles living on Barker Avenue on Peoria’s West Bluff in the 1890s. One was Charles Duryea, the father of the American automotive industry, and the other m was my grandfather, Charles Needham. Charles Needham was born in Peoria in the early 1880s to Patrick and...

02/22/2017

Peoria Riverfront Museum has named John Morris its new CEO. He's a former Peoria City Councilman and currently head of The Reagan Society at Eureka College. And did you hear about the discovery and seven new and possibly habitable planets? Read these and other stories at http://www.peorian.com/news/news/local/2519-morris-riverfront-museum

The Peoria Riverfront Museum decided to stay home for its new leader this time. John Morris of Peoria, a former Peoria City Councilman and current director of The Ronald W. Reagan Society at Eureka College, was announced as the new president and CEO of the museum, beginning April 10. Morris,...

02/17/2017

Bob Michel's death brought out many remembrances of the man, the Congressman, the mentor. Read some of those, including from Ray and Darin LaHood and Aaron Schock, at http://www.peorian.com/news/news/politics/2516-bob-michel

Robert Michel, who during his 38 years representing the Peoria region in Congress was known to always put country ahead of party, died Friday in Arlington, Virginia. He was 93. Michel, born and raised in Peoria, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1957 and served the 18th...

02/10/2017

Molly Crusen Bishop lets us into her background a little with a story about her Irish heritage that started in County Kilkenny. Read about it at http://www.peorian.com/history/history-news/local-history/2511-molly-kilkenny