Hiram Walker II, who built the house in 1917 ... Jason Thompson, who purchased the 8,700-square-foot house in 2010, is an Indiana native who attended the University of Detroit in the 1990s ...

It was the multitude of corn, fresh water and a knowledgeable work force that helped Hiram Walker revive the distilling industry in Peoria in the 1930s. But it was the attention to employees at ...