The nearly 1.5 million in Peoria-area projects includes $250,000 to help Bradley University renovate Bradley Hall, $250,000 to expand Glen Oak Zoo, $250,000 to Lakeview Museum to help build a downtown museum of Peoria hitory, $500,000 to help rehab roads in Springdale Cemetery and another $200,000 to help the Heartland Clinic bring services [...]
November 19, 2005 in Section 2
Tags: bradley hall, Bradley University, heartland clinic, history, hurricane, katrina, Museum, porkbusters, springdale cemetery | No Comments »
No, no, no. Not Peoria Pundit.
I’m talking about Historic Peoria. All I get is a Unix server error message.
Since I’m sure that the people who run the site aren’t techies, let’s hope they contact their hosting company and find out what’s wrong.
history,peoria,site issues
October 6, 2005 in Citizen Journalism
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I challenge anyone to read this article and not come to the conclusion I reached a looooong time ago: The whole Sears Block/History of Peoria museum concept has completely mutated into a “Kiss Caterpillar’s Ass” event.
The Great Yellow God demands tribute.
September 9, 2005 in Local
Tags: Caterpillar, eminent domain, history, Museum, Sears Block | 12 Comments »
Managing editor Jack Brimeyer himself broke the news officially to readers: grieving families will now have to pay to have a full obituary* in the Journal Star. Of course, Brimeyer waits until the end of the fourth paragraph to get to lower the boom, and he does it in an underhanded fashion. Instead of [...]
August 28, 2005 in Local
Tags: copley news, Copley Press, death notice, genealogy, history, Jack Brimeyer, Journal Star, newspaper, obits, obituaries, peoria | 7 Comments »