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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

June is the perfect month to ramble through a prairie. While the woodlands have progressed past the spring wildflower season, prairie wildflowers are just getting started. Illinois woodland ...

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 ...