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Grassroots Effort Sewing Up Thousands of Face Masks For Peoria Healthcare Workers

A Peoria-area grassroots collaborative is churning out thousands of homemade masks for healthcare workers. Heather Hollaway is one of the organizers of…

Discover Peoria Touts ‘Restaurant Week’ As Bridge Phase Approaches

The Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is encouraging people to dine out this week. The inaugural Peoria Area Restaurant Week started Monday and runs through Sunday, as Illinois prepares to enter the “bridge” phase of the COVID-19 reopening plan.

Walther, Murphy In Contested Race For Peoria Public Schools Board Seat

Incumbent Dan Walther has drawn a challenge from Mike Murphy in his bid for re-election to the Peoria Public Schools Board of Education.Originally elected…

Refrigerated cases at a Peoria grocery store feature shelves stocked with juices, eggs and other goods.

Request for Peoria City Council to reconsider local grocery tax fails

An attempt to have the Peoria City Council take a second look at its adoption of a local grocery tax failed to advance to discussion during Tuesday’s regular meeting.

Former Reditus Labs CEO Aaron Rossi, seen here at work prior to the criminal cases against him.

Ex-Reditus CEO Aaron Rossi accused of having synthetic marijuana in Peoria County Jail

Aaron Rossi, the former Reditus Labs CEO at the center of a flurry of federal fraud cases and lawsuits, has been indicted for allegedly possessing contraband as an inmate at the Peoria County Jail.

Three two-story red brick apartment buildings with brown roofs sit on a grassy lawn, surrounded by trees and sidewalks, under a cloudy sky.

Peoria Housing Authority taking initial steps toward demolishing ‘obsolete’ Harrison Homes

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.

A diverse group of people sit around a U-shaped table in an office, engaged in discussion. Papers, water bottles, and notebooks are on the table. A TV and a clock are mounted on the wall in the background.

Rep. Sorensen discusses clean energy careers, minority business needs during Peoria stop

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.

The National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, known locally as the Ag Lab, in Peoria on University Street is operated by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Terminated federal employees are back to work at the Peoria Ag Lab

The probationary employees fired from Peoria’s largest federal employer earlier this year are almost all back on the job.

Peoria Public School 5th graders turn up the heat in culinary competition

District 150 middle schoolers are getting a taste of culinary professions through a cooking competition this weekend.Six Peoria Public School fifth…

Sharon Samuels Reed, founder of the Heritage Ensemble, with her husband, LaColis Reed Jr, awarding the Bridge Builder Award at the Juneteenth: An American Celebration.

The Heritage Ensemble: Filling a cultural void in Peoria with music since 1999

The Heritage Ensemble has been hard at work tearing down walls and building bridges between all people since 1999 in Peoria. The music group exists to celebrate the culture and history of African Americans through music, specifically negro spirituals that were born out of one of the darkest times in American history: slavery.

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