Entrepreneur Spotlight: Reuben Cummings

PEORIA -- If there's a poster child for the technology movement for the Peoria area, it may be Reuben Cummings.

An African American who grew up on Peoria's South Side (his mother, Yvette Cummings, still lives on Starr Street) left Greater Peoria to get his education at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation, he stayed in Boston to refine his computer skills before deciding to see the world.