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  • Central Illinois is playing host to a world sports championship this week. Specifically, disc golf. The Professional Disc Golf Association’s World…
  • WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Thursday, December 3, 2020. Our top story is about how the alternative COVID-19…
  • On today’s episode, with early voting for the June primary election starting tomorrow in Illinois, the Peoria County Election Commission's Elizabeth Gannon explains how casting your ballot will look a little different when you head to the polls. And you’ll meet Veronica De Fazio - the new deputy director of the Peoria Public Library. Plus, you'll hear part two of WCBU correspondent Hannah Alani's conversation with JOLT Foundation founders Dr Tamara Olt and her husband Blake Olt.
  • Rare, respected, sincere, dedicated. Just a few of the words used by some friends and colleagues in describing popular community leader and former Peoria City Council member George Jacob, 61, who died Sunday at his home.
  • A Peoria man is dead after a shooting early Sunday morning in the city's South Side. Peoria police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 1500…
  • On this week’s episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois chats with Laura Warren-Roberts of Fondulac District Library about “Music in the Park” — a free, family-friendly summer concert series held in East Peoria’s Levee Park.
  • On today's episode, why it's been so challenging to find new lawyers to work as public defenders and prosecutors. Plus, an interview with an author from Pekin about her new book. And a Peoria mother talks about her son, whose promising life was cut short last month in a shooting.
  • Coroner Jamie Harwood said 36-year-old Vanessa Tucker died from asphyxiation by suffocation. Finger marks were found on her neck.
  • A Peoria man involved in a Labor Day motorcycle crash in Woodford County died early Tuesday morning.
  • The Peoria Park District will vote next week on cutting several facilities in order to balance its 2018 budget. Park District Executive Director Emily…
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