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...Minority students at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (that archetypal American town), protested the local formation of an "American White Supremacist Party...
...SALE: Continental Regency Hotel in Peoria, Ill. A city landmark with 333 rooms. Needs work. Anxious owner asks just $4 million...
...many of you thought I won?" a jaunty Michael Dukakis asked his audience in Peoria, Ill. Loud cheers made it unanimous; the Democrat had bested George Bush in their debate two days earlier. Even the Vice President's aides privately agreed. A few of them came close to panic during the debate, fearful that Bush's skittish performance would create a reaction that "could roll out of control," as one adviser put it. Their sudden anxiety turned out to be as baseless as Dukakis' new brio. By week's end a TIME poll flashed a different verdict: the public credits...
Downstate, the campaign is an uncertain face-off between Bush's stress on social issues and Dukakis' appeal to economic discontent. Illinois Democratic Director Stephen Murphy asserts that industrial cities such as Decatur, Rockford and Peoria "are the holes in the Swiss cheese. Those cities never recovered from the 1982 recession." Gregory Baise, state secretary of transportation and a liaison between Republican Governor James Thompson and the Bush staff, concedes that among Illinois farmers, already hostile to the Administration, "there's an added kicker, the drought, and we just don't know how that will work...
Baker presides in a glorious, bright office with a log fire that cuts the late-winter chill. He looks out one tall window on the White House gardens, out another toward Alexander Hamilton in the splendor of bronze and new cherry buds. Pity the beasts of political burden in Peoria's Holiday...