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Angry men take the stage at Peoria Players

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Classic drama "Twelve Angry Men" opens Friday at Peoria Players Theatre; seven performances set

"Twelve Angry Men," the classic drama about a jury of 12 men deciding the fate of a young man accused of murdering his father, opens Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Peoria Players Theatre.

The play is set in the mid-1950s, when jurors were made up only of men, and tells the story of how one juror holds out on...

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'Laramie Project' festival opens Corn Stock winter season

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Plays about the hate crime murder of Matthew Shepard and the effects on a small college town are featured

"The Laramie Project" and "The Laramie Project 10 Years Later" will open Corn Stock Theatre's 2012-2013 Winter Playhouse season on Friday.

To be presented in repertoire, with four performances of each show, it tells the story and the aftermath of the 1998 murder of...

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Not cool, people. Not cool.

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Imagine going to a public meeting as part of your normal job and finding out, at the same time everybody else does, that your job — indeed your employer — has changed.

That's what happened to staff at the Economic Development Council of Central Illinois on Tuesday. Either by conference call or in person, I'm told, they participated in a meeting of the Economic Development Regional Steering Committee and heard their numbers had been...

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Caterpillar updates 2015 expectations

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While profit expectations are lower, sales and revenues may reach $100 billion, company tells analysts  catlogo                

Caterpillar Inc. said...

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A new home for the Duryea

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The 1899 Duryea Trap, built in Peoria, will rest permanently in Riverfront Museum

The Duryea Trap, built in 1899 by Charles Duryea in a barn behind his Barker Avenue house, has landed in what will be its final home.

The three-wheeled vehicle, one of the first gasoline-powered vehicles ever built, was moved from the PeoriaNEXT Innovation Center to the museum on Monday, with...

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Caterpillar updates 2015 financial expectations

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