If you happen to be taking your June stroll through a prairie with sandy soil, you might come across the Eastern Prickly Pear (Opuntia humifusa). We don’t think of cactus as being native to Illinois, ...

Community Word is published monthly by Community Word LLC. Independently owned by local investors. Brian Ludwig, Managing Editor, c/o 621 Commercial St. Suite 1A-B, Peoria, IL 61602, ...

Driving to the anti-fascist, anti-oligarch demonstration, we passed the ongoing demolition of the Labor Temple. Men and women from Operating Engineers Local 649 (they have their own hall) operated the ...

Sometimes we can miss the most obvious realities, such as the vital importance to Peoria County of the Kickapoo Creek watershed. Covering nearly 300 square miles, it has played a big role in American ...

John Boyland’s Bison is placed at the Peoria County Highway Department. “Knowing the Bison would take permanent residence outside in the elements, many of my design choices were aimed at taking ...

Objects can’t talk, but they can still tell a lot of stories about why the people who used them to Peoria County chose to call this place home. “Why They Came: Celebrating Peoria County’s 200th ...

Community Word is published monthly by Community Word LLC. Independently owned by local investors. Brian Ludwig, Managing Editor, c/o 621 Commercial St. Suite 1A-B, Peoria, IL 61602, ...

When the Catholic Church picked Robert Francis Prevost as its next Pope, it was seen as continuing the stances that Pope Francis voiced, and maybe more significant to working people, Cardinal Prevost ...