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

September 2022

Family sitting for a portrait on a front porch

The Turners behind the Turner Center

Mike Bailey

Bob and Carolyn Turner share their good fortune to tip the dominoes in Peoria’s economic favor

Digital Edition

Spotlights

Family sitting for a portrait on a front porch

The Turners behind the Turner Center

Mike Bailey

Turner Center Nominee: Men in boat catch Asian Carp

New Exporter of the Year

Mike Bailey

Turner Center Nominee: a man and woman sitting on a beach with a guitar and a Didgeridoo

Innovation of the year

Nick Vlahos

Turner Center Nominee: A man sitting in front of a stack of boxes with with "Alegna" labels on the,

Government Contractor of the Year

Bob Grimson

Turner Center Nominee: A group standing in front of Morton Marketing posters

Community Partner of the Year

Phil Luciano

Turner Center Nominee: Wood Posts with metal sleeves

Rural Business of the Year

Peoria Magazine

Turner Center Nominee: a father and daughter embracing with a field and cow in the background

Exporter of the year

Scott Fishel

Turner Center Nominee: A woman istting in a living space with a neon sign - "Life is sweet"

Women in Business Leadership Award

Laurie Pillman

Turner Center Nominee: A family standing in front of a table

Small Business of the Year

Lisa Coon

Turner Center Nominee: A group posing for a photo in a lab.

Startup of the Year

Lisa Coon

Turner Center Nominee: A woman looking at the camera standing in front of a wall and a clock.

Small Business Advocate of the Year

Linda Smith Brown

Kayakers enjoy a morning on Lake Eureka, a favorite recreational spot in Eureka

Living It Up Local in Eureka

Scott Fishel

A building and front yard

Eureka’s Maple Lawn Homes celebrates a century of care

Laurie Pillman

South Side Mission Building with a rose bush

‘God can start some things’

Phil Luciano

Features

A Q & A with Jim Bullard, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis

Peoria Magazine

Two women standing in their businesses

Bridging the gap between ideas, action

CeCe Hill

Vintage photos of a line of horse riders and an ad for the Young Buffalo Wild West Show

When the Wild West ruled the stage in Peoria

Steve Gossard

Plates of Food

Giddyup to Macomb’s horseshoe central

Nick Vlahos

A woman and man at a farmers market table.

Goodbye Disney, hello Marshall County

Steve Tarter

Family standing in front of a building - Beecham's Market, Inc.

Beecham’s Market, Four Generations Strong

Phil Luciano

Rob and Emily Sharky standing in front of their farm

On the farm, finding positives in the pandemic

Emily Sharkey

Cast members of a show standing in front of the Barn Theatre

Reel-ing in the years at The Barn III

Steve Tarter

Dancers in rehearsal

A Decade of Dance

Laurie Pillman

Woman Standing in front of a wooden archway in the Peoria Public Library

Meet Veronica De Fazio

Jennifer Davis

People, Places & Parties | September 2022

Peoria Magazine

Business News in Brief

Business News – In Brief | September 2022

Peoria Magazine

Commentary

Graphic with football players and a stop watch

Of nightmares and unfulfilled gridiron glory

Phil Luciano

Mike Bailey

Here’s to the risk-takers

Peoria Magazine

A graphic with the US constitution and the us Flag merged. Various Americans in the background

In 2022 as in 1776, still working on becoming a nation

John F. Gilligan

A Graphic with money symbols and the work inflation. a man in the background pressing on the word with his hand

Making decisions in inflationary times

Matt House

Fred the Horse Cartoon #1

Toon Town | September 2022

Dan Ackley