{"id":1712,"date":"2023-04-17T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2023-04-23T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T23:34:09","slug":"2023-04-12-digest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/2023-04-12-digest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2023.04.12-19 Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\/news\/celebrating-central-illinois-healthcare-workers-andy-hudsons-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-op-action=\"link\" data-op-select-funnel-step=\"\" data-op3-smooth-scroll=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hudson\" src=\"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hudson.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"56\" data-op3-attachment-id=\"1729\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WCIA<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\/news\/celebrating-central-illinois-healthcare-workers-andy-hudsons-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebrating Central Illinois healthcare workers: Andy Hudson&#8217;s story<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;\u201cI kind of grew up around the pharmacy, taking out the trash and things like that,\u201d Andy Hudson said. Andy Hudson is a third generation pharmacist and the owner of Hudson Drug Shop in Paxton, a role his grandfather and dad held before \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sj-r.com\/story\/news\/history\/2023\/04\/13\/awaiting-the-kinks-in-illinois-were-a-gun-wielding-driver-and-a-serial-killer\/70057548007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-op-action=\"link\" data-op-select-funnel-step=\"\" data-op3-smooth-scroll=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kinks\" src=\"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kinks.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"56\" data-op3-attachment-id=\"1728\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SJ-R.com<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sj-r.com\/story\/news\/history\/2023\/04\/13\/awaiting-the-kinks-in-illinois-were-a-gun-wielding-driver-and-a-serial-killer\/70057548007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Welcome to Illinois&#8217;: Screaming fans, a gun-wielding driver and a serial killer greeted the Kinks<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m a retired Peoria native and remember the first concert I ever went to, at Exposition Gardens, featuring the Kinks. It was in the mid-&#8217;60s. How about a piece on that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/13042023\/inside-clean-energy-solar-array-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-op-action=\"link\" data-op-select-funnel-step=\"\" data-op3-smooth-scroll=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"solararrays\" src=\"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/solararrays.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" data-op3-attachment-id=\"1711\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/13042023\/inside-clean-energy-solar-array-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Look Out, California: One of the Country\u2019s Largest Solar Arrays is Taking Shape in\u2026 Illinois?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The largest solar arrays operating in the United States are located in the kinds of sunny states you would expect\u2014five in California, four in Texas and one in Arizona. But a project that began construction last month in Illinois is going to be about as \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralillinoisproud.com\/news\/local-news\/pritzker-awarding-grants-to-support-tourism-in-central-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-op-action=\"link\" data-op-select-funnel-step=\"\" data-op3-smooth-scroll=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"pritzker\" src=\"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pritzker.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" data-op3-attachment-id=\"1709\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WMBD<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralillinoisproud.com\/news\/local-news\/pritzker-awarding-grants-to-support-tourism-in-central-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pritzker awarding grants to support tourism in Central Illinois<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce &amp; Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced millions in grant funding coming to boost tourism in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\/news\/brawl-brews-for-best-central-illinois-city-for-beer-lovers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-op-action=\"link\" data-op-select-funnel-step=\"\" data-op3-smooth-scroll=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"brews2\" src=\"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brews2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"44\" data-op3-attachment-id=\"1707\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WCIA<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\/news\/brawl-brews-for-best-central-illinois-city-for-beer-lovers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brawl brews for best central Illinois city for beer lovers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>WCIA published (see below) an article declaring Springfield the best city in Illinois for beer lovers based on national data collected by Move.org. That article sparked a passionate debate in the comments of its Facebook post \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\/news\/central-illinois-city-named-top-place-in-state-for-beer-lovers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-op-action=\"link\" data-op-select-funnel-step=\"\" data-op3-smooth-scroll=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"beerlovers\" src=\"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beerlovers.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"69\" data-op3-attachment-id=\"1704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WCIA<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\/news\/central-illinois-city-named-top-place-in-state-for-beer-lovers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Illinois city named top place in state for beer lovers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>One city in central Illinois was crowned the best place for beer aficionados to live in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WCIA Celebrating Central Illinois healthcare workers: Andy Hudson&#8217;s story &#8216;\u201cI kind of grew up around the pharmacy, taking out the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/headlineunsplash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paEp2q-rC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoria.citislicker.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}