An excerpt from the new book Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland takes us back to central Illinois in the 1970s.
Tag: Peoria
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You’re innocent until proven guilty—but that doesn’t mean you can vote
Dems and Republicans clashed over a bill giving those unable to post bond while awaiting trial the right to vote.
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Downstate hate: A history of the bitter, nearly 200-year rivalry between Chicago and the rest of Illinois
The animosity between Illinois’s largest city and its smaller towns is almost as old as the state itself.
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Judge blocks Trump administration threats to defund sanctuary cities, and other Chicago news
Also, Kwame Raoul, Gery Chico, others express interest in replacing Lisa Madigan as attorney general.
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Caterpillar moving global headquarters to Chicago from Peoria, and other news
Also, wealth inequality between whites and minorities in Chicago is reportedly higher than the national average.
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Rahm Emanuel releases several years’ worth of e-mails, and other Chicago news
Also, outgoing Republican senator Mark Kirk laments the lost of the moderate establishment in the age of Trump.
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Chicago authors share their secrets
Chicago authors with spring books coming out share methods for combating writer’s block and other secrets.
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Taste of Randolph 2013
Taste of Randolph 2013: Try a bit of the Joy Formidable with your Publican Quality Meats.
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The Best New Restaurant in the Midwest?
Peoria, IL: Drawing on the same farms that supply Chicago’s best, a homegrown chef has the culiscenti parachuting into Peoria.
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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before. . .
There’s nothing new or specifically modern about men of the cloth taking liberties with young parishioners
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Landesman to Play Peoria
NEA chair Rocco Landesman will visit seven states to push his message that “art works.” First stop, Peoria, where he has some fence-mending to do because of remarks he made last summer comparing Peoria theater negatively to theater in Chicago.
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Open mouth, insert foot, chew, and swallow
If Jon Stewart weren’t God, we’d have to invent him.