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In her latest conversation with WCBU, Peoria Mayor Rita Ali discusses how to develop more affordable housing, how to reduce violent crime, providing basic city services under a cloud of escalating pension obligations, and more.

The American Civil Liberties Union sent letters to eight Illinois municipalities last week urging them to repeal their panhandling bans. The nonprofit…

CHICAGO (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations are challenging Peoria’s panhandling ordinance.The ACLU, the Chicago Coalition…

A federal judge has ordered the city of Springfield to pay more than $330,000 to civil rights attorneys who represented two panhandlers in the legal fight…

Cities in Illinois and across the country have laws regulating panhandling. But courts are tossing them out, and Springfield ’ s ordinance could be next...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Springfield, Illinois, officials seeking to reinstate an ordinance that banned…