Arts and Culture

Fatherhood and addiction are two of the meaty subjects tackled on the new album from Peoria’s alt-folk quintet, The Way Down Wanderers. Band members Collin Krause and Austin Krause-Thompson spoke with WCBU's Daniel Musisi about their new album, “More Like Tomorrow.”

A new Walldogs mural going up along the square in Washington pays homage to the city's historic bandstand.

A proposed 1,500-seat performing arts pavilion at Donovan Park prompted objections from most of the residents attending a Peoria Park District discussion session on Tuesday.

A Peoria icon has passed away. Former Peoria Park District executive director Bonnie Noble died last week at age 80.

Academy Award-winning makeup artist and Peoria native Tami Lane now has a hometown street named in her honor.

Before Rob Fromberg became a writer and teacher, he was a 19-year-old from Peoria abruptly thrust into the role of full-time caretaker for his younger brother.

Community opposition to removal of the Glen Oak Park amphitheater appears to have saved the historic venue.

Seven-year-old Amelia Ly is perhaps Peoria's youngest piano virtuoso. But she's also a voracious reader and a lover of science.

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.

The seminal "Sonar Tide" sculpture outside the Peoria Civic Center is getting a big makeover.

Dr. Abigail Larrison has always had an interest in education. She's worked at major universities, approaching education from a brain expert's vantage point. But she finds the hands-on teaching that happens in her Peoria home more rewarding than traditional academia.

A Whittier Primary School third grader is a winner of the prestigious Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Award.