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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.

As part of the “Food Routes” series, Harvest Public Media explores three big factors that affect produce prices in the Midwest and Great Plains.

The Kroger grocery store in Peoria’s Sterling Bazaar shopping center closed Wednesday, more than a week ahead of the initially scheduled date.

A Peoria City Council representative hopes Kroger will be open to supporting the community as it prepares to close a store in her district.

The national grocery store chain Kroger plans to close a location in Peoria by early August.

A grocery store planned for Peoria’s South Side neighborhood is scheduled to open this summer after more than 3 1/2 years of planning.

After years of planning, Harvest Market will receive $1.7 million from a state grant to open in Peoria’s South Side.

The closure of small-town grocery stores across the Midwest leaves communities with a hole to fill. A family in rural Benson is building a way to help.

Peoria’s South Side neighborhood has been a food desert for more than six years after Kroger closed its store in the Madison Park Shopping Centre. After some delays, pastor Chuck Brown is still working to open a grocery store.

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.