It’s presidential election season, so it’s time to go to Peoria! In this visit we head up Perry Street in the northeast streets of the city, which I have now created a tag named Northeast Peoria due to the frequency I visit the area.

For the life of me I had no memory of a street named Perry Street, so I found it interesting to take a look at it.

While supposedly the old maxim, “How will it play in Peoria?” is less relevant today (I don’t think so), I was intrigued to see that a Mexican grocery had popped up. I had noted that the nearby Cathedral of St. Mary had begun to emphasize the patron saint of Mexico, The Virgin of Guadalupe, inside its sanctuary, which I thought was smart.

Update: I visited this block of Perry Street again in June of 2025.

It dawned on me that I had actually photographed the block below back in September of 2013, despite not noting the name of the street.

That house below? It sure looked a lot different over ten years ago (fourth photo down)! What happened?

There’s this cool church, which looks occupied.

I’ve photographed this house below before, back in September of 2019.

This little house is old.

But it raises the question: How does the change of political parties really help the residents and their homes? The flipping back and forth of the presidency between political parties has made little difference in the decade or more that I’ve been looking at northeast Peoria.

Can we just admit that a large portion of America has been left behind?