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Angry men take the stage at Peoria Players

Details: Published on Wednesday, 03 October 2012 12:54; Written by Paul Gordon

Classic drama "Twelve Angry Men" opens Friday at Peoria Players Theatre; seven performances set

"Twelve Angry Men," the classic drama about a jury of 12 men deciding the fate of a young man accused of murdering his father, opens Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Peoria Players Theatre.

The play is set in the mid-1950s, when jurors were made up only of men, and tells the story of how one juror holds out on...

'Laramie Project' festival opens Corn Stock winter season

Details: Published on Wednesday, 26 September 2012 12:54; Written by Paul Gordon

Plays about the hate crime murder of Matthew Shepard and the effects on a small college town are featured

"The Laramie Project" and "The Laramie Project 10 Years Later" will open Corn Stock Theatre's 2012-2013 Winter Playhouse season on Friday.

To be presented in repertoire, with four performances of each show, it tells the story and the aftermath of the 1998 murder of...

Not cool, people. Not cool.

Details: Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:32; Written by Paul Gordon

Imagine going to a public meeting as part of your normal job and finding out, at the same time everybody else does, that your job — indeed your employer — has changed.

That's what happened to staff at the Economic Development Council of Central Illinois on Tuesday. Either by conference call or in person, I'm told, they participated in a meeting of the Economic Development Regional Steering Committee and heard their numbers had been...

Caterpillar updates 2015 expectations

Details: Published on Monday, 24 September 2012 15:20; Written by Paul Gordon

While profit expectations are lower, sales and revenues may reach $100 billion, company tells analysts catlogo

Caterpillar Inc. said...

A new home for the Duryea

Details: Published on Monday, 10 September 2012 15:20; Written by Paul Gordon

The 1899 Duryea Trap, built in Peoria, will rest permanently in Riverfront Museum

The Duryea Trap, built in 1899 by Charles Duryea in a barn behind his Barker Avenue house, has landed in what will be its final home.

The three-wheeled vehicle, one of the first gasoline-powered vehicles ever built, was moved from the PeoriaNEXT Innovation Center to the museum on Monday, with...

Caterpillar updates 2015 financial expectations

Details: Published on Monday, 24 September 2012 15:20; Written by Paul Gordon

While profit expectations are lower, sales and revenues

may reach $100 billion, company tells analysts Read more...

Fueled By Area Successes, Soccer Growth Has Been Steady

Details: Published on Monday, 03 September 2012 17:07; Written by Paul Gordon

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Central Illinois has long been a hotbed for high school basketball and football. But in the last decade or so another sport has been steadily climbing the ranks of popularity among area athletes: Soccer.

Participation in the sport, which older...

Inaugural Tonti Award to honor Caterpillar

Details: Published on Friday, 14 September 2012 15:20; Written by Paul Gordon

Award named for Peoria founder to honor those who demonstrate principled leadership Tonti-bust-4

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Alzheimer's Association Aims to Put Itself Out of Business

Details: Published on Monday, 03 September 2012 14:37; Written by Paul Gordon

The bad news is that without preventive medicine, the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease will triple by the year 2050, to 16.5 million.

That's because the baby boomer generation is just now reaching the normal ages the devastating disease is diagnosed.

The good news is, many researchers believe such preventive medicine, or at least a treatment to slow the progression of Alzheimer's, will be available by 2025. Read more...