Common Place is a social service agency on Peoria's South Side that helps people overcome poverty and injustice through education.
Founded in 1967, the Common Place Family Learning Center deals in issues related to poverty, racism and injustice. Its youth program offers services to more than 1,800 children in kindergarten through grade 12. The center administers a summer work study program that serves low-income children up to the age of 15. The Common Place Family Learning Center offers health and safety, emergency care...