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Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center
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State News
State to lay off hundreds at troubled southern Illinois mental health facility
Jackson Brandhorst
Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center to reduce patient population, staff amid operational changes
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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Baldovin Development Group
Local News
New string lights enhance a block of Peoria’s Warehouse District
Joe Deacon
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
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