hometown represent:
The Peoria Pundit
The Community Word – Peoria’s Neighborhoods Newspaper, Since 1977
Merle Widmer’s PEORIA WATCH

i’m sure there are more. these got me started, though.

i am much relieved to learn that i am not the only one who thinks that fantasyland being hocked on ebay is noteworthy. however, i would go farther and say that the damned thing ought to be forcibly redecorated as a condition of sale, as it’s easily the ugliest damn thing on farmington road. whatever happened to the era of the sly, unnoticeable exterior for adults-only attractions — like the elegant-in-comparison swinger’s world? i swear to god i thought that was a square dance shop when i was little (you know, “swing your partner ’round and ’round” . . . ah, shut up, you had stupid ideas when you were a kid, too). and there was no tacky, glaring, ugly-ass neon-purple paint to persuade me otherwise, either.