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Eureka College, Central Illinois
I bet you always wondered where Ronald Reagan went to college, didn’t you? I’d driven by a million times but I finally detoured and photographed the leafy campus of Eureka College in Central Illinois....
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Perry Street, Northeast Peoria
It’s presidential election season, so it’s time to go to Peoria! In this visit we head up Perry Street in the northeast streets of the city, which I have now created a tag named Northeast Peoria due...
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Late Summer Odds and Ends
I have some leftover photos from the summer that I needed to clear out. Above, this house has collapsed on West Florissant Avenue just north of Grand Boulevard in the College Hill neighborhood,...
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Family Farm, Last Day of Summer 2024
Things are looking good around the family farm east of Peoria. Harvest will begin in a week or two, and the crops are looking good. Cattle have returned to the pasture, as well.
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Arch Peoria
Someone has been borrowing ideas from St. Louis for their advertising out Farmington Road in Peoria, which gets weirdly rural quickly less than a mile from Bradley University.
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West Callender Avenue and Environs, Peoria
I was up on the bluffs on Moss Avenue in Peoria, which I’ve looked at before back in July of 2021, here and here. Then I realized, wait a minute, this house below looks familiar, so I turned off Moss...
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East of North Street, Peoria, Part One
I’d looked at some of the streets northeast of Main Street in Peoria before, but this time I went up North Avenue. North Avenue heads to the north just about opposite of High Street, which I’ve looked...
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East of North Street, Peoria, Part Two
Continuing around on Columbia Terrace in Peoria, there are these houses from the early Twentieth Century. There is also this impressive Tudor Revival house around on Randolph Avenue. But then there...
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Lincoln Mausoleum, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield
I made a pitstop in Springfield, Illinois during a rainstorm and stopped by the Lincoln Mausoleum, which some people insist on calling a tomb. It is located in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Under reconstruction...
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Family Farm, November 2024
I was up at the family farm in Illinois in mid November and things were looking good after harvest, which had finished by the time I visited. The cattle had been let out into the corn field for the...
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