Vietnam Moving Wall brings thousands to Oswego
— June 30, 2017The Vietnam Memorial still sparks memories and emotions even 42 years after the end of America’s second-longest war. A scale model of the original, located on the National Mall in…
The Vietnam Memorial still sparks memories and emotions even 42 years after the end of America’s second-longest war. A scale model of the original, located on the National Mall in…
Hallmarks of the Fourth of July are parades with loud marching bands and shrieking fire engine sirens, neighborhood firecrackers punctuating the night and community-wide fireworks shows…
Voters in Peoria County approved a property tax increase Nov. 8 to provide assistance to people with developmental disabilities, military veterans, and the families of both living and…
Jim Champion used to take 59 pills a day for Multiple Sclerosis and post-traumatic stress disorder. Now he takes just five or six. The difference? Smoking one-and-a-half to two medical…
As part of her Schweitzer Fellows project, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry student Nisha Garg initiated a Veterans’ Screening Day at the College recently…
For those who may be wondering what’s behind the frosted bulletproof glass windows in the strip mall at 504 Riverside Drive in East Peoria, it’s cannabis, and it’s…
This summer, formerly homeless Air Force veteran Ron Kubert, 62, experienced a phenomenon he’s encountered too many times with promised veteran services: If it looks too good to be…
Corporal Francis Callaghan, a long way from his home on the South Side of Chicago, was a determined man on the morning of February 4, 1945. Callaghan was a member of the…