Welcome, fellow Americans, welcome.At Bradley University's Renaissance Coliseum in Peoria last Tuesday, 685 new American citizens from 80 countries were sworn in during a naturalization ceremony conducted by James Shadid, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in central Illinois. This was said to be the largest such ceremony ever in Peoria, and the second largest in the nation this year.The ceremony is typically held at the federal courthouse but had to be moved to a stadium [...]
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