Business

It appears the popular Peoria bar spot Crusens is opening a location across the river. Crusen's signs have popped up along Route 29 in Creve Coeur, just…

Many young people leave the Peoria area for other cities when they start out on their own. But around Thanksgiving, they head home.The Greater Peoria…

Just two years after Ernie's Dairy Dream re-opened on Peoria's South Side, the business is looking to pick up and leave the city.Ernie's opened at 2600 SW…

Ivanka Trump toured the welding facility at a southwestern Illinois community college as she promoted the importance of continued worker training.The…

Bradley University’s new business and engineering complex is on track to open next summer. Construction of the 5-story building on Main Street is…

The Illinois House has approved a measure to provide back pay to thousands of state workers who've been waiting for it since 2011.The bill passed the…

A showdown between two Democratic measures to close the wage gap ended with Illinois senators rejecting one considered more business friendly.The Senate…

Gov. Bruce Rauner says he's traveling to Germany and Poland next week to try to draw more companies to Illinois.Rauner talked about the trip Wednesday…

The University of Illinois Flash Index measured the Illinois economy at 104.5 in March. That’s down a tenth of a point from February. But economist Fred…

Continuing last year's record-setting growth, Chicago set new tourism records in the first months of 2018.Mayor Rahm Emanuel says hotel demand increased…