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Oh my Darling, oh my Darling, oh my Darling, CIRY

Back in February, former mayor Dick Carver came to Peoria (at taxpayer expense) to talk about options for the future of the Kellar Branch, including which railroad company would be the better rail carrier: Pioneer Industrial Railroad or Central Illinois Railroad Company. The president and general counsel for Pioneer showed up at the meetings, but [...]

July 3rd, 2007 | Category: Kellar Branch | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

Park ‘n Ride into the past, I guess

I thought I might ride CityLink’s Park ‘n Ride service to see the fireworks at Glen Oak Park tonight. My wife and I did that last year and it seemed to work relatively well. So I wanted to get some info on where they would be picking up people and how much the fares [...]

July 3rd, 2007 | Category: CityLink | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

More details come out about museum changes

Jennifer Davis has been doing some digging and came up with these specific changes:

…shrinking the building by about 15,000 square feet and doing away with both the reflecting pool and the large metal sphere enclosed in glass, which held the planetarium. Further, though it will look like a two-story building in places, the second floor will [...]

July 3rd, 2007 | Category: Museum Block | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)