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Charitable food organizations, like the Midwest Food Bank are eagerly looking for volunteers comfortable enough to serve, while still recovering from a rough year of production due to the pandemic.

An influential scientific society has recommended scrapping a long-standing taboo on studying human embryos in lab dishes beyond 14 days and greenlighted a long list of other sensitive research.

Republican state lawmakers across the country are advancing bills that limit how public school teachers can talk about race in the classroom.

"If it weren't for my video, the world wouldn't have known the truth. I own that," says Frazier, who was 17 at the time. "It made me realize how dangerous it is to be Black in America."

The Peoria City Council approved an application to the Illinois EPA for a $32 million loan to cover the cost of installing the first round of green infrastructure projects needed to achieve a 35% reduction in the city’s combined sewage overflows by 2027.

Peoria NAACP president Marvin Hightower says not enough has been done to curb police violence against Black men since the murder of George Floyd one year ago.

Drawing new district lines for state and federal elections is the main focus for lawmakers when they begin the redistricting process every 10 years.

Nearly $450 million dollars in major road work is planned for the Peoria area over the next six years as part of a $20.7 billion dollar funding package announced last week by Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Transportation.

A continued slowing trend for COVID-19 in the Tri-County area produced just 40 new cases and no new deaths in the past day, while hospitalizations in the region dipped back below 50 and active cases moved under 300.

On Tuesday afternoon, President Biden announced four new appointees to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, replacing four commissioners appointed by former President Donald Trump.