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The ‘beacon’ on Berkeley Avenue

As Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center commemorates its 10th anniversary this month, how do we measure its impact on...

Start Your Innovation Engines!

The year was 2000 and 40 community leaders gathered in the board room at Bradley University’s Swords Hall. Representatives of...

The future of medicine

If you’re amazed by the health care advancements of the last 10 years, it’s possible you ain’t seen nothin’ yet....
Vintage Photo Peoria Downtown

Reviving Downtown

"Downtown was the center of everything … The streets were thronged … People window-shopped along Main Street or lined up...
Angie Henry

A tale of three South Peoria families

South Peoria resident Angie (Allen) Henry cannot imagine living anywhere else in the city. Henry is a second-generation family member...
Lisa Gates

‘She’s just getting started’

The passion Lisa Gates has for Peoria is palpable. Now the vice president of marketing and communications at RLI Insurance,...
Barb Drake

‘She planted the seed’

Barb Drake relishes discussing her interview with feminist icon Betty Friedan. Please. If anybody is a feminist icon, it is...
Pam Howe

The Road Less Traveled

Pam Howe hasn’t always taken the conventional road, but as executive vice president of Commerce Bank in Peoria, that may...
Nikki Romain

Empowerment through art

If you ask her, Nikki Romain will say she doesn’t feel very “influential.” “I don't think that is on my...
40 Leaders Under Forty Graphic

Class of 2022

We here at Peoria Magazine are thankful that we can have hope in our collective future, confident that our 40...
Turner Center Nominee: Men in boat catch Asian Carp

New Exporter of the Year

If Asian carp have a heaven, it’s the Illinois River. So many silver, grass, bighead and black carp want to...
Lisa Coon

‘Children Deserve the Best’

It’s almost impossible to think of Easterseals Central Illinois without thinking of Steve Thompson.For 42 years, he has helped lead...
Mike Bailey

A Pearl of a Person

Survey the landscape of central Illinois the last 20 years and arguably few have left a more lasting imprint on...
Peoria’s ‘Ag Lab’

New School, Meet Old School

Hardly a season goes by when we don’t hear of some new kid on the block of central Illinois’ high-tech...
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