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After announcing the closure of its Junction City location, Café Santa Rosa opens the doors for regular business hours out of the Betty Jayne Brimmer Performing Arts Center in Peoria Heights

Before Jeff McLinden gets to deal with what happens should Peoria lose its bid to host March Madness next year, he’s got this year’s basketball tournament…

The annual meeting of the Peoria Township electors drew an overflow crowd Tuesday at City Hall, producing votes in favor of both a non-binding ballot question related to boycotts of Israel and a special meeting to consider funding for a possible senior center.

The Junior League officially announced its focus on mental health at the Little Black Dress Initiative cocktail party in February. Heather Bean Oyler said the group is currently in the information-gathering stage of the process.

Peoria City Council members are getting their first looks at the city staff's proposed two-year budget. The recommended spending plan has 2026 anticipated expenses of $301 million and projected revenues of $298 million.

East Peoria celebrated the opening of its new city hall facility last night. A new foundation also aims to raise money for the surrounding land:The more…

Unionized Peoria city employees were notified Wednesday of potential layoffs as the city seeks to plug a $31 million hole in this year's budget created by…

After the COVID-19 eviction moratorium ended last year, cases of homelessness went up in Peoria. With summer weather now hitting Illinois, homelessness cases are predicted to keep rising. The Dream Center in Peoria is a faith-based nonprofit that sees the home insecurity issues caused by poverty and is supporting families facing housing insecurity.

Customers at stores in Peoria's Glen Hollow Shopping Center will see a slight sales tax increase next year, with the revenue earmarked to redevelop the area.

On this week’s episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland Wright of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks with Marc Supreme of the YANI Collective and William Butler, Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, about two upcoming Juneteenth events.