PEORIA MAGAZINE March 2023
| Letter from the Editor | 7 |
| Seed and Soil:
Bridging the Rural/Urban Divide | 8 |
| Seed and Soil:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place | 12 |
| Dish and Drink:
The Spice is Right | 16 |
| Dish and Drink:
Come For the ‘Damn Good Beer,’ Stay For the Conversation | 20 |
| Dish and Drink:
What's Cookin' - Rosemary and Garlic Hasselback Potatoes | 22 |
| Dish and Drink:
Cocktail Class - Shanky's Power Flip | 25 |
| Dish and Drink:
Cultivating a Coffee Experience | 26 |
| Reviving Downtown | 28 |
| Peoria Retro:
The Demetriou Plan | 34 |
| Breathing New Life into Peoria’s Downtown | 40 |
| Saving Old Buildings Is ‘In His Blood’ | 42 |
| Building Downtown’s
Future One Building and Block At a Time | 46 |
| Mom and Pop:
Success Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint | 48 |
| The Captains Behind the Curtain | 52 |
| Devotion to Downtown | 56 |
| Commerce and Compassion,
Finding a Balance | 60 |
| ‘They Paved Paradise,
and Put Up a Parking Lot’ | 64 |
| The Sounds of Silence In
Downtown Peoria | 66 |
| Hometown:
The New Normal | 70 |
| Twenty Something:
Downtowns, Like People, Have Their Phases | 74 |
| In Downtown Peoria,
Making ‘No Little Plans’ | 78 |
| EconCorner:
Steve Raquel, Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 82 |
| Once Upon a Time, America’s Leaders Worked Together | 84 |
| Playing in Peoria:
‘Pay the Cover,’ Let Your Mind Be Blown’’ | 88 |
| ArtsPartners Calendar | 90 |
| Whatever Happened to Shanghai City? | 92 |
| In Brief | 96 |
| WordCount:
The Golden Era of Peoria Hoops | 98 |
| Out & About | 102 |
| One Last Thing:
Peoria Loses a Pizza Titan | 106 |
| Thank You, Advertisers | 108 |
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