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Finished dark chocolate is shown atop cacao beans at the new TCHO chocolate factory in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, Aug. 25, 2008.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Peoria educator brings science research to classrooms through $10K chocolate history grant
Joe Deacon
Emily Dawson, a Peoria Public Schools teacher who also advises an afterschool research club as she pursues a third master’s degree at Western Illinois University, received a $10,000 Chocolate History grant from Mars, Inc., for a project examining cacao grown in Hawaii.
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Man’s fatal stabbing marks Peoria’s first homicide of 2026
Joe Deacon
Four men and one woman in Peoria County Sheriff's Office uniforms stand behind a table with a row of automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, with a U.S. flag on the left, an Illinois state flag on the right, and a sheriff's office banner in the background.
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Peoria County Sheriff’s Office gets $50K to buy new AEDs
Joe Deacon
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