Greater Peoria Economic Development Council

The Peoria metropolitan area is shrinking in population, with the combination of deaths outnumbering births and more people moving away, resulting in a decline of close to 3,000 people between 2020 and 2021.

After several years of relative dormancy, the state's public-private business attraction agency is coming back with a new strategy to lure certain out-of state companies to the Land of Lincoln.

Lenora Fisher is the director of business attraction for the Greater Peoria Economic Development Council.

New data show wages for food service workers in Greater Peoria have risen sharply in the past year — although workers in most other industries are seeing inflation gobble up more modest wage gains.

It's been more than three years since plans for a downtown Peoria innovation hub were first announced. What's happening there now?

David Jackson invites fellow Peoria transplants to a gathering Friday at Cyd's in the Park. (Lifers are welcome, too.)

A decade-long collaborative campaign touting the benefits of Peoria and the surrounding area will focus on both prospective and current residents.

OSF HealthCare says it has more than 750 open positions in the greater Peoria area. UnityPoint Health has close to 500 vacancies. And Morton Industries is looking to hire about 70 additional workers.

The first steps toward improving broadband access in rural portions of Tazewell County are moving forward with help from a $15,000 state grant.

A group of Peoria-area community and business leaders hope to develop the city into a major biomanufacturing center in the next several years. Among them is Jake Becraft, a Metamora High School graduate who is co-founder and CEO of a Massachusetts-based biomanufacturing start-up.