PEORIA MAGAZINE August 2022

COVER STORY 34 Summer Vacation Shrinks In Peoria Public Schools By Lisa Coon

SPOTLIGHTS 22 Peoria is Now Home Sweet Home For Many Indian-Americans By Mike Bailey 26 Local Colleges, Universities Confront Enrollment Declines By Phil Luciano 30 ‘There Are Always Going

46 Pumpkin Powered By Scott Fishel 52 Music rules in Morton By Lisa Coon 64 Find A Career, Earn

While You Learn, Avoid Debt By Amy Talcott

ON THE COVER: The bright and eager faces of the Class of 2023 Photo by Ron Johnson

To Be Teen Pregnancies’ By Linda Smith Brown

67 Turning Donations into Help for Others By Craig W. Armstrong 68 Secrets Just Beneath the Soil By Mike Bailey

38 Peoria Stadium 2.0 By Nick Vlahos

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