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Looking for art, culture? Check out the latest exhibitions in Central Illinois 🎨

Looking for art, culture? Check out the latest exhibitions in Central Illinois 🎨

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Exhibits “Heart”; Experience Gallery; by autumn 2023; “Body Worlds RX”; Experience Gallery; in the winter of 2024; Peoria Riverfront Museum. “Model and Process”; until December 21; West Gallery and Light Court; “Shozo Sato’s Ink Wash”; until December 16; Main Level, Contemporary Gallery; Krannert Museum of Art, Champaign. “Here I Lived: Home in Illinois”; until January …

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Roanoke County hails year of investment, growth

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Roanoke County celebrated a year of economic development and investment Tuesday morning, including what Board of Supervisors Chair Martha Hooker called the largest business expansion in county history. The annual State of the County breakfast event drew about 300 people to the Green Ridge Recreation Center, where Hooker summed up the year in an address …

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Looking for art, culture? Check out the latest exhibitions in Central Illinois 🎨

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Exhibits “Heart”; Experience Gallery; by autumn 2023; “Body Worlds RX”; Experience Gallery; by autumn 2023; Peoria Riverfront Museum. “Model and Process”; until December 22; West Gallery and Light Court; “Shozo Sato’s Ink Wash”; until December 22; Main Level, Contemporary Gallery; “History: The Imprints of Marie Watt”; until December 2; Krannert Museum of Art, Champaign. “Here …

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Homes, businesses planned for former East Helena smelter site

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The former ASARCO East Helena smelter is being transformed into a property that will bring at least $1.6 billion in investment over the coming years, including thousands of housing units and other improvements. Or as one person called it at a recent meeting: “The Miracle of East Helena.” The November 15 meeting was hosted by …

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The history of the GS Garcia saddle shop lives on at the Cowboy Arts & Gear Museum

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ELKO—Inside the Cowboy Arts and Equipment Museum in downtown Elko, the entire center of the room is filled with western saddles made of decorated leather. Executive Director Jan Petersen is eager to guide visitors to various elements of cowboy art, such as braided rawhide bridles, ornate metal pieces from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering’s bit-making …

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Canales furniture; International Investments; Another castle; Bruceville-Eddy Drive-in Theater

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Canales Furniture, a family-owned company based in Fort Worth, has signed a lease for the former Dirt Cheap space at 300 N. Valley Mills Drive, according to Waco real estate agent Randy Reed, who brokered the deal. Fort Worth-based Canales has grown to about 20 locations in Texas and Oklahoma, according to its website. It …

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Urban Flats introduces shared business space concept to Norfolk | Choose

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Building on a 50-year family legacy of entrepreneurship in Norfolk, Justin and Debbie Webb say they created Urban Flats to give the owners a place to gain experience, grow their business and possibly expand when the time is right. Urban Flats is Norfolk’s only shared business space of its kind in the community, featuring six …

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