Food desert

In her monthly conversation with WCBU, Peoria Mayor Rita Ali discusses positive trends in crime figures and what has been working in reducing gun violence.

Harvest Supermarket owner Chuck Brown is targeting an opening date sometime in February 2022 and looks to hire 20 employees.

A locally-owned full service supermarket is planned for the former Save-A-Lot grocery store space on Western Avenue on Peoria's South Side early next year.

First District Peoria City Council candidate Denise Jackson says the conversation around the city's potential plans for the former Save-A-Lot grocery…

The Peoria City Council is implementing a fee cap on third-party food delivery services like GrubHub and DoorDash during the ongoing COVID-19 mitigations…

Food insecurity and the invasive Asian carp are two familiar, longstanding issues in Peoria. But a new stakeholder group believes they've discovered a way…

It’s been more than two years since two Kroger stores closed in Peoria—one on the South Side, the other on the East Bluff. That left two of the city’s…

A Logan County town’s new grocery store may provide a model other rural food deserts can follow. Mount Pulaski lost its only grocery store in 2016. Since…

People have been leaving rural midwestern areas for decades. And it’s not just population loss. Often fresh food sellers move away too. There might be…

The Peoria Area Food Bank is on the move. It hosted its first-ever mobile food bank Monday in front of the former Madison Park Plaza Kroger store.…