April is one of the best months to take a 4-mile ramble through Singing Woods Nature Preserve. Walking the perimeter of the trail system will give you a glimpse of all of the varied habitats. It’s a ...

Indeed, it may seem that in the long War on Poverty, the nation lost. Nevertheless, government programs have proven effective – especially after 1964’s Economic Opportunity Act, which until 1980 made ...

As cold weather returns and an annual estimate of homelessness looms next month, advocates for the homeless are preparing for winter –– amid a worsening pandemic. Meanwhile, the state’s health ...

Over the course of my time as the Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Peoria I have attended several Peoria City Council meetings. The Council has always conducted business that benefited ...

Gary Davis, retired college professor and administrator, agrees with Beinart’s support of one state with equal rights for all. Beinart’s support for this has made him the target of harsh criticism. He ...

Q: They have their pedigree. DD: These are highly pedigreed vehicles. All of them are vetted through that process. So that’s part of the pick process. Q: They’re already famous in their own right. DD: ...

Basketball fanatic Oliver Mack has not seen the 10-part miniseries. He doesn’t have to, though. He was there. “Winning Time” takes some serious artistic license and is loosely based on the ...

This summer, if they focus and perform according to ELITE standards, they will attend Camp Dallas named after Dallas Atherton, a promising young man who committed suicide when he was 19. Atherton had ...

BY CLARE HOWARD Warthog Wheat stretched to the horizon and chattered in a breeze as storm clouds banked in the distance. Harold Wilken and his son Ross were anxious to get out into the field to start ...

My great grandfather was on the run from down south where there was a price on his head. He was wanted dead or alive for disobeying his white master. He never returned to the south, not even to see ...

Mike’s Scale Rails: I don’t know about you, but for some reason, I have WAY too many friends who are train enthusiasts. Or, as I like to call them, nuts who like to take pictures of moving trains.

If we’re to believe WCBU-FM, and there’s no reason not to, Methodist, Proctor, and Pekin hospitals have been transferred by Unity Point Health of West Des Moines, Iowa, to Carle Foundation of Urbana ...