grant funds

The Peoria City/County Health Department has announced a funding opportunity totaling $100,000 for projects to help feed working families.

A commercial building improvement grant of more than $45,000 for the Cherry Tree Plaza shopping center in Washington is back on the table, after the city council previously rejected the request.

The City of Peoria will provide close to a half-million dollars to rehabilitate Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the city’s South Side

The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office is getting 45 new automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, thanks to a grant of nearly $53,000 from the Gary Sinise Foundation.

A grant of $20,000 will assist the Center for Prevention of Abuse’s continued efforts against human trafficking, a problem CEO Carol Merna calls an urgent humanitarian issue and public health crisis.

East Bluff Community Center Executive Director Kari Jones sees a potential $25,000 grant as a benefit for the entire Peoria area. Jones is courting support to help the EBCC win one of this year’s 40 grant awards in the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program.

Chicago Public Schools plans to take out a $389 million short-term loan to get the financially struggling district through the end of the school year and…