Correction: Peoria History Tours story

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - In a story June 25 about the possible end to history tours by the Peoria Historical Society, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the tour chair. She is Beth Johnson, not Jensen.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Peoria Historical Society might have to discontinue tours

The Peoria Historical Society's history tours may soon be history

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - The Peoria Historical Society's history tours may become history themselves.

Beth Johnson, who chairs the society's history tours, tells the (Peoria) Journal Star (http://bit.ly/2sFbdf8 ) that the problem is transportation. The tours used city trolley buses for 20 years until Peoria sold them last year. Then the society used the Peoria Riverfront Museum's bus but Johnson says the museum might sell the bus next year. She says if that happens and the society can't find another vehicle it would have to discontinue the tours.

That would hurt the not-for-profit society, which has earned as much as $20,000 a year from the tours.

The tours offer a way to learn about the city's history, including Peoria's whiskey and brewing industry before Prohibition and the reasons why Peoria was once nicknamed "Sin City."