East Peoria City Council

The move comes months after the Illinois Gaming Board approved Boyd Gaming's plans to redevelop the Par-A-Dice Casino at its existing East Peoria location after Peoria’s attempt to lure the gambling operation across the river. The updated ordinance says video gaming machines in hotels and motels are "disfavored and detrimental" to East Peoria.

Council members voted unanimously to approve a five-year contract adding 10 Flock license plate readers in East Peoria, despite opposition in and outside the council chambers.

The city council on Tuesday night weighs a decision to add 10 more cameras to the 15 it already has. Opponents from Central Illinois anti-Flock groups hope to press council members by demonstrating in Levee Park before the meeting. The village of Creve Coeur has its own decisions to make.

More than three months after officers and staff transferred to the new facility, the East Peoria Police Department held an official grand opening for its spacious new headquarters on Camp Street.

East Peoria city leaders support a proposal to add 10 more Flock Safety automated license plate reader cameras to the police department’s existing system that’s been in place four years.

The last two grass-and-dirt diamonds at the EastSide Centre sports complex in East Peoria will be converted to synthetic turf.

East Peoria Mayor John Kahl announced he will run for a third four-year term in a social media post, saying that holding the office “has been one of the greatest honors of my life.”

Two weeks after members expressed reluctance and frustration, the East Peoria City Council voted unanimously in adopting new flood maps in accordance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s update for Tazewell County.

East Peoria leaders are moving ahead begrudgingly toward accepting new floodplain maps presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

East Peoria is going to keep most of its recently purchased property on the north side as an operating farm for at least the next year.