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Joe Deacon/WCBUConstruction is set to begin on a new $8.1 million water filtration plant in Peoria Heights, believed to be the largest public works project in the village’s history. -
Mark Pickering/WGLTIf FEMA approves the disaster declaration, it would make a number of programs available to help residents and property owners recover, including grant funding for temporary housing and home repairs, along with low-interest loans to cover uninsured property damage.
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Recent testing of the Chillicothe Community Water System detected concentrations of two PFAS compounds that significantly exceeded the potable groundwater quality standards. -
Two weeks after members expressed reluctance and frustration, the East Peoria City Council voted unanimously in adopting new flood maps in accordance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s update for Tazewell County. -
The company formerly known as Pacific Ethanol Pekin will fund a $125,000 environmental restoration project and pay a $75,000 civil penalty as part of a consent order ending legal proceedings over refinery pollution on the Illinois River. -
U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen returned to Peoria for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, speaking to a clean energy workforce training class and talking with budding entrepreneurs at the Minority Business Development Center. -
A severe storm system that damaged buildings, downed trees and left thousands without power in Bloomington-Normal on Thursday largely spared the Tri-County region. -
East Peoria leaders are moving ahead begrudgingly toward accepting new floodplain maps presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. -
East Peoria is going to keep most of its recently purchased property on the north side as an operating farm for at least the next year. -
Several public housing buildings on Peoria’s South Side could be slated for demolition in hopes of creating an opportunity for continued neighborhood revitalization efforts. -
U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen has been tabbed to lead a new legislative panel on weather preparedness. -
The state lifted its moratorium on new nuclear facilities, but development could still be decades away
