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Country Star Jon Pardi Abruptly Cancels Concert Following ‘Active Local Safety Concern’: ‘We Need Everybody to Get Out of the Building’
‘The show is not gonna happen tonight. I can’t tell you what’s going on, but today is a weird day anyway because of the flights being shut down… I want y’all safe,” the country star told fans shortly before the concert was set to begin.
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'Times have changed': 110-year private Pekin Country Club golf course now public under new name
Pekin Country Club is now a public golf course with a new name. Marigold Meadows has emerged as the rebrand from Pekin Country Club, going from a private club to a public course on Monday, Nov. 9. The 110-year-old property, located at 310 Country Club Drive, Pekin, has been under management of co-owners and brothers, Jay and Shaun Schlosser, since April 2025. "We feel like we've done about everything we can to expand membership," Shaun Schlosser told the Journal Star, noting rates were lowered for 2026. "Long story, short, financially it's just not adding up. We just come to the conclusion that times have changed, especially in the Pekin area." Feedback regarding the condition and playability of the golf course has been overwhelming positive. However, the price tag of becoming a member — $400 a month — was potentially impeding the growth of membership. That's when Jay and Shaun decided to make a change. "We just crunched the numbers," Shaun Schlosser said. "And just decided that, 'Hey, in order for this (to be) viable business going into the future that we're going to need public play,' and we really want to embrace it. ... Preserving the golf course, it's kind
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Photographer Keith Cotton presents 'Collected/Constructed' at the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
On this week's episode of Out and About, Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks with fine-art photographer Keith Cotton about Collected/Constructed, an exhibition featuring his photography alongside the stainless steel sculptures of Fisher Stolz at the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria. For Cotton, the exhibition represents the culmination...