Steve Tarter
CorrespondentSteve Tarter retired from the Peoria Journal Star in 2019 after spending 20 years at the paper as both reporter and business editor.
He joined WCBU in 2020 shortly before the pandemic hit. Tarter, married with four adult children, enjoys old movies, especially film noir. The former president of the Apollo Theater in Peoria loves those old black-and-white crime movies so much he hosts a free annual film noir series at the Peoria Public Library every spring. He also continues to host a weekly podcast, Tarter Source, started at the Journal Star several years ago, with a spotlight on Peoria-area personalities.
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When your business plan was all about brewing up a closer community, what do you do when that community has to stay outside?That was the situation many Peoria-area coffee shops found themselves in during the pandemic. -
You may know Marty Wombacher from his popular blog, Meanwhile Back In Peoria. That blog celebrates his return to his hometown, but on September 11th, 2001, Wombacher was living in New York City, just blocks away from Ground Zero.
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After Jeffrey Kluger, the author whose book on the flight of Apollo 13 became a hit movie starring Tom Hanks, wrote the first chapter of his new space novel, “Holdout,” he decided to change the leading character, a NASA astronaut from a man to a woman.
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As cars and trucks move towards electric power in the 21st century, it may surprise some to know that Illinois had one of the finest electric transportation systems in the country throughout the first half of the 20th century.
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If you follow the national news you’ve heard that housing prices have skyrocketed across the country. Home prices hit a new high in June, up 23 percent over June of last year, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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If postal rates go up as expected next month, a postcard will cost 40 cents to mail.
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Henry Detweiller was a riverboat captain whose name is familiar to Peorians thanks to the street, park and marina named after him but there was more to his story than guiding steamships up and down the Illinois River.
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Sheila Quirk-Bailey has seen plenty of change in the five years she’s served as president of Illinois Central College — and that’s fine with her.
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After Charles Titus retired from his position as a history professor at Eastern Illinois University several years ago, he had the time to visit 20 distinct historic attractions across the state.
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While the nation’s hotel industry suffered during the pandemic, a young entrepreneur from Seattle was launching her own Airbnb operation in Peoria’s Warehouse District.
