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Peoria Magazine is no longer in production. Publication ended with the November 2023 issue.

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One More Thing

Frozen in time

Phil Luciano October 28, 2023
Ihave a weird guilty pleasure: Reading old newspapers. I bet not too many of you do likewise. After all, it’s...
Composer and Conductor Aaron Zigman leads an orchestra through a practice session. (Photo provided by Aaron Zigman)

A Musical Wunderkind Lands in Peoria

Phil Luciano September 27, 2023
A chance encounter makes me wonder:At any given time, how many folks like Aaron Zigman might be unassumingly roaming around...
osprey perches inside a nest atop the eastbound McClugage Bridge

Lovers for Life

Phil Luciano August 1, 2023
In a year, I might lose two friends.Then again, maybe they’ll stick around.It’s hard to tell. They’re flighty. And distant.Also,...

Taking inventory of a life

Phil Luciano June 28, 2023
How do you sort through a person’s life?After a loved one dies, can you pore over decades and decades of...

Dust off that old turntable

Phil Luciano May 24, 2023
For the first time in 35 years, vinyl records outsell CDs, and Craig Moore is over the moon about itI’m...

True to the end

Phil Luciano March 31, 2023
In Peoria, a quiet hero died a quiet death.Carl H. Porter Jr. — the oldest veteran of the Army’s 508th...

Peoria Loses a Pizza Titan

Phil Luciano February 27, 2023
Jim Agatucci looked at me as if I were nuts. This was a few years back, when he was in...

Final respects can wait no more

Phil Luciano February 1, 2023
Soon, Nance Legins-Costley’s name will finally rise above her final resting place. It’s about time. Legins-Costley — the first slave helped...
George Manias

The nicest of nice guys

Phil Luciano January 1, 2023
George Manias likes to chat about most anything, except maybe himself.The 91-year-old dresses himself every workday in white shirt and...
Talking Christmas Tree

When Christmas trees spoke to us

Phil Luciano November 30, 2022
Meet the inaugural voice behind the legendary Bergner’s Talking Christmas Tree. In the above 1977 photo, 5-year-old Jennifer Zenzen poses next...
A dog sitting on a bar stool in front of a bar

The Bar Dog of Bar Dogs

Phil Luciano October 1, 2022
In Hollowayville, at this old burg’s lone watering hole, the staff’s friendliest face belongs to Izzy. Of all employees at...
Peoria Chiefs Ball Park

Can The Old Julian Hotel Be Saved?

Phil Luciano April 28, 2022
Architecture aficionados can fall in love in with a structure as bold, bedazzling, even breathtaking. But the object of my...

Where’s My Flying Car?

Phil Luciano April 1, 2022
The future is a tricky place to visit, a harder place still from which to send a postcard.We are an...
Inside old car

One Last, Emotional Ride

Phil Luciano March 4, 2022
Sometimes, it’s hard to say goodbye to a special gal. She came into my life during hard times, keeping me...
Lorraine Washington

Lucky to be alive

Phil Luciano October 27, 2022
At Thanksgiving, Lorraine Washington is grateful for never giving up during dark times. Homeless as a teen. Shot in the face....
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