PEORIA MAGAZINE January 2023

COVER STORY 28 ‘No Child Should Suffer a Life Derailed By Untreated Mental Illness’ By Mike Bailey SPOTLIGHTS 18 Healing With Herbs By Laurie Pillman 20 ‘Hope is Always There’ - Brain Cancer Research By Lisa Coon 24 Students Striving to Cope By Linda Smith Brown 32 Adult Mental Health Care, Closer to Home By Amy Talcott 36 ‘So No Other Human Would Suffer As You’ - Rhoda Derry By Phil Luciano 40 Float Your Cares Away By Laurie Pillman 44 Sculpting Peorians Into Their ‘Baddest’ Selves By Madeleine Trolinger 64 Learning Political Campaigning One Door at a Time By Mel Huang 66 Never Forget By Mike Bailey

FEATURES 8 Seed and Soil:

50 Hometown:

Farmers Need to Relax and Reset – to Respirate – Too By Rob Sharkey

All Aboard for Galesburg By Scott Fishel

54 Playing in Peoria: From Gridiron to

10 Seed and Soil: Fred the Horse By Dan Ackley 12 Dish and Drink: Making ‘Tasty’ Synonymous With ‘Healthy’ By Phil Luciano 14 Dish and Drink: What's Cookin' – Black Dal

Grand Ole Opry Doorstep - Jake Maurer By Kirk Wessler

62 Twenty Something:

New In Campus Fashion - Green Bandana Project By Nick Vlahos

70 EconCorner:

Julian Reif, associate professor of finance and economics at the Gies College of Business,

By Mary DiSomma

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

17 Dish and Drink: Cocktail Class – In For The Night

72 WordCount:

By Dustin Crawford

Ken Zurski Lands On His Brand By Steve Tarter

34 Peoria Retro:

‘A Place for Special People’ By Steve Tarter

88 Out & About

48 Mom and Pop:

A Breath of Salty Air By Laurie Pillman

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