PEORIA MAGAZINE October 2022

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Letter from the Editor	7
Seed and Soil: Corn Belt Report: Is It Time to Rethink Corn?	8
Seed and Soil: Fred the Horse Cartoons	10
Seed and Soil: Maybe I’m Amazed	12
Dish and Drink: What's Cookin' - A Ginger Cake to Remember	15
Dish and Drink: Cocktail Class – The Lazy Snitch	17
Dish and Drink: Coffee and Cool Come to Hanna City	18
Peoria Pursues Its Choo-Choo to Chicago	22
The Epitome of the American Dream’ - Omer Osman, IDOT Secretary	26
Debating Central Illinois’ Most ‘Significant’ Architecture	30
McClugage Bridge - This Septuagenarian is Getting New Bones	34
Road and Bridge Roundup - ‘An Investment In Our Future’	38
Major Improvements Coming To River City Roadways	40
Peoria Heights Eyeballs Game-Changing Capital Projects	42
The Knolls - ‘People Who Move Here, Stay Here’	44
The Soul of a Home - Reagan Leslie	48
For Madison Theatre Resurrection, the ‘Time Has Come’	52
Peoria Retro: Peoria’s Architects and the Jewels They Left Behind	54
Bringing a Peoria Landmark To Life	58
Peoria Retro: Rickety, Risky Bridges	63
Havanans Are Looking Up	64
The Washington Way	68
Mom and Pop: Commentary Stylish and Sustainable	74
Playing in Peoria: Commentary Female Musicians Find It’s Still A Man’s Stage	78
ArtsPartners Calendar	82
Playing in Peoria: Peoria Ballet, ‘Art That Moves’	86
Twenty Something: Commentary Taking the Scenic Route	88
EconCorner: Jake Kinsey, University of Illinois Gies College of Business	90
WordCount: One Spooky Storyteller - Sylvia Shults	94
‘MotorWeek’ Keeps Rolling Along	98
On the Scene, Central Illinois	100
Add The ‘Extra’ To Your Ordinary	102
A Penny – Maybe More — For Your Thoughts?	104
In Brief	106
One Last Thing: The Bar Dog of Bar Dogs	108
Toon Town	111
Thank You, Advertisers	112

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