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Museum Partners answer readers’ questions (Pt. 1)

You asked, and now the museum is answering!

Rather than wait until all the answers were in, Kathleen Woith of Lakeview Museum has provided the answers she has received so far. “Some of the questions concerning the Peoria Historical Society and the Peoria Regional Museum Society (which owns the Duryea) I have sent along to [...]

September 15th, 2006 | Category: City of Peoria, Museum Block | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)

Hotel optional six months ago, now critical

The city commissioned a feasibility study recently to see what impact a proposed hotel connected to the Civic Center would have on other hotels downtown. The Journal Star gives us our first peek at their results today.

After all the money that’s been put into the the recent Civic Center expansion, now we’re being told [...]

September 15th, 2006 | Category: City of Peoria, Peoria Civic Center | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)