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Peoria City Manager Patrick Urich discusses the budget outlook and process, as well as strategic planning, in his latest regular monthly interview with WCBU.
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A combination of grocery store closures, transportation barriers and rising food prices have left nearly 33,000 people without access to nutritious food, says a local collaboration of food pantries, health departments and nonprofits.
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On this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland Wright of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks about the 61st annual Fine Art Fair with Shannon Cox, executive director of the Peoria Art Guild, and Nikki Wheeler, the Guild’s director of education and the fair’s co-director.
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Getting a new small business off the ground can be challenging for anyone. Often, women face more obstacles and need to handle extra responsibilities compared to their male counterparts.
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Police said the woman reported last Thursday she was assaulted in the 100 block of Shoshone Drive.
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Saint Margaret's Health is asking a federal bankruptcy judge to allow the sale of its closed hospital in Peru to move forward.
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Chief Judge Sara Darrow on Sept. 5 ordered Rossi to remain in custody after prosecutors alleged he sold off nearly $5 million worth of assets without the court's permission, as the conditions of his release required.
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In Chillicothe, the historic former library on Second Street is getting a new lease on life as an eight-room boutique hotel.
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Brian Barron, a representative of the board that governs the not-for-profit fire department, said before the council's unanimous approval of the ordinance amendment that the board had concerns about the ordinance that was in place.
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A man was found down on the scene with life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after.
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The first day of the pretrial fairness act saw only two hearings come before Peoria County Circuit Court Judge Sean Donahue. In both instances, the State’s Attorney’s office filed petitions seeking to have the defendant detained until trial.
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There are many vibrant cultural communities in the Peoria area, but not all are as well represented as the Filipino American Society of Central Illinois, or FASCI.