Longtime NFL player and coach Dick Manual Jauron died Saturday. Here is the story of his birth in Peoria and how a local school became his namesake.

Photo by Gordon E. Lloyd Fort Crevecoeur Train 92, St. Louis–Peoria streamliner Fort Crevecoeur, at Edwardsville, Ill., June 22, 1950. Photo by Donald Sims Granite City suburban trainTwo-car PCC ...

Jeryl Lynn Budoff, 74, of Peoria, AZ, passed away on December 28, 2024 after a long illness. Jeryl was born January 16, 1950, in Heidelberg, Germany to Lt. Colonel Arthur H. Friedland and Dorothea ...