(Photo By Flickr User Steve Borsch) “Get ready, get ready, get ready family, for the return of the 1-Tank Trips!” Showing our love to the city of Burlington, IA as they celebrate their annual Steamboat Days/American Music Festival! The 55th Annual Burlington Steamboat Days/American Music Festival is a Father’s Day weekend festival held each June in…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User State Farm) It was a mixed year for area companies in the newly released 2017 Fortune 500 list of major world corporations. Caterpillar fell from 59th to 74th place since last year in Fortune’s estimation. The magazine cited an 18 percent decline in sales from 2015 due to weak oil…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Roger Smith) With summer arriving and only 35 percent of Americans planning to take a family vacation away from home this year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2017’s Best & Worst Cities for Staycations. Best vs. Worst Staycations Inside The Numbers: •New Orleans, LA has…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User D Coetzee) The final chapter of the ’17 IHSA Class 3A & Class 4A Boys Baseball & Girls Softball State Finals (Kings & Queens Of The Diamond Part II) concludes on this weekend! The 2017 IHSA Girls Softball & Boys Baseball Class 3A & Class 4A State Finals will conclude…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Joe Shlabotnik) “There ain’t nobody here but us turkeys, there ain’t nobody here at all; so calm yourself and stop that fuss, there ain’t nobody here but us. We turkeys tryin’ to sleep and you butt in, and gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, with your chin!” The Tremont Turkey Festival…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Simon_sees) If you want to play catch-up with Part I of the 2017 IHSA Class 1A & Class 2A Boys Baseball/Girls Softball State Finals, here are the results as follows: “*”- indicates winner 2017 IHSA Girls Softball Class 1A & Class 2A State Finals At EastSide Centre-East Peoria, IL: Friday: 6/2/17:…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User David Feltkamp) Taking place on the Riverfront in downtown Peoria, the 46th Annual Steamboat Days Festival combines a bigger, better carnival, delicious food and drinks, great musical entertainment, and more in a family-friendly atmosphere! Continuing this great Peoria tradition, Steamboat Days Festival 2017 will be held on Thursday, June…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Scott Smith) With summer arriving and only 35% of Americans planning to take a family vacation away from home this year, the personal-finance website WalletHub, released its report on 2017’s Best & Worst Cities for Staycations. The top 10 cites are as follows: Best Cities for Staycations: 1) Orlando, FL 2)…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User UrbanPromise) Former Chicago Bears & Carolina Panthers football star Charles “Peanut” Tillman, will headline the inaugural Journal Star (PJ Star) Best of Central Illinois Preps awards gala, set for Monday, June 26th at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, IL. The event will honor all of the Journal Star all-stars…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Timothy Takemoto) The 2017 IHSA Boys Baseball & Girls Softball Class 1A & Class 2A State Finals make their way to Peoria & East Peoria, IL on this weekend. Here is a glimpse of what will be happening on Friday and Saturday. The 2017 IHSA Girls Softball Class 1A & Class 2A…… MORE
