By: Greg Batton I became friends with Gary Gillis about 40 years ago. It makes me happy that over all that time we are still friends. Recently, I was a guest on Gary's podcast, "What's The Stor...

By: Greg Batton While I'm thinking of it: appreciations, recommendations, thoughts and gratitude. WITOI is a download of thoughts I have had recently about the people, events and places of where we live...

By: Phil Luciano Peoria city officials are trying to convince Boyd Gaming to abandon their Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino in East Peoria and build a land-based operation in Peoria. That effort, confirmed by WMBD Radio via a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the city of Peoria, has...

By: Phil Luciano Sometimes, coroners cry. Jamie Harwood freely admits to occasional tears. But for the eight-year coroner of Peoria County, no recent case has hit as hard as that of Sydney Weston. He says it's a particular challenge to share death information with the parents of childr...

By: Phil Luciano As the director of the Peoria airport, Gene Olson spends a lot of time gazing skyward. Lately, though, he has been peering down - way down. "It's like a honeycomb under there," Olson says. The shafts were 5 feet tall and 15 feet wide, with one 2.5 miles long....

At the Movies with Casey Foreman: "A Real Pain" A Real Pain is a film that makes you feel. Jesse Eisenberg and Kieren Culkin are phenomenal - Eisenberg bot...

At the Movies with Casey Foreman: "Heretic" What do you believe in... and why...? A24 continues to roll out bangers and it begs the question - are they the...

Maybe I'm the problem. Because Sony continues to miss with it's "sort of Spider-Verse", that lacks Spider-Man, and I just keep going to see them. Despite b...