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A city street at dusk with string lights overhead, cars parked along the sides, and buildings lining both sides, with the Peoria skyline is visible in the background.
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Local News
New string lights enhance a block of Peoria’s Warehouse District
Joe Deacon
Visitors to a section of Peoria’s Warehouse District will find things a touch brighter now. Twelve strands of string lights spanning the 800 block of SW Adams Street are in place and functional, completing a placemaking collaboration.
The Peoria County Coroner's Office at the Health and Human Services Building.
Joe Deacon
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WCBU
Local News
Driver flees Peoria traffic stop; teen passenger in second vehicle killed in collision
Joe Deacon
The Byron Generating Station, owned by Constellation Energy, is pictured in Ogle County.
(Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
State News
These 9 Illinois communities say they’re interested in new nuclear facilities
Maggie Dougherty
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