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The CJ Harvest Supermarket, Bright Kitchen Strategies and the Gilkesson Mortuary and Cremation Life Center are among 47 businesses across the state chosen for the Small Business Capital and Infrastructure Grant Program announced Friday by Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Economic Opportunity.

A national gaming, entertainment and tech festival is coming to downtown Peoria beginning next year, with organizers expecting to attract tens of thousands of guests.

The City of Peoria submitted a successful bid of a little more than $1.2 million on Wednesday to secure its planned acquisition of Exposition Gardens.

The Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity is again in need of a new CEO following the resignation of Denise Moore after just four months.

Members of the Peoria County Board are expected to vote this week on a $2.65 million loan that could lead to Liberty Steel & Wire relocating its company headquarters to Bartonville from Texas.

The head of a relatively new Peoria nonprofit hopes a state grant of close to $1 million will spark investor interest in a proposed affordable housing development with a clean energy component on the city’s South Side.

Bradley University in Peoria will receive $2 million in state funding for capital improvements on campus.

Epic Medical is coming to Pekin. Mayor Mary Burress and Epic Medical founder and CEO Freddie Lee signed papers that pave the way for the Singapore-based company to build a $25 million medical equipment manufacturing facility in the city's Riverway Business Park.

The chamber of commerce will be paid $2,000 by the city to submit the grant application. Other payments would be made by the city to the chamber if the grant is approved by the DCEO.

Governor Bruce Rauner announced the creation two minority business advancement programs at the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce Conference in East…