To talk about Garfield and Peoria is to talk about St. Basil–Visitation parish. Basil’s current home was known as Visitation—the two churches would consolidate in 1990, and St. Many of the rioters were parish members; a reverend of the church at the time, Monsignor David Byrnes, had said to his congregation that only “if Irish families remained in the neighborhood would Visitation continue to flourish.”