Peoria City Council

A routine agenda item about a short-term rental permit for a property off Grandview Drive turned into an hour-long discussion around the horseshoe on the city council's role assessing the proposals.

City Manager Patrick Urich said there appears to be multiple ways to obtain a slice of the $66 billion available in rail funds through last year's bipartisan infrastructure bill.

In her latest monthly conversation with reporter Joe Deacon, Peoria Mayor Rita Ali offers her thoughts on using the Request for Proposals process for funding anti-violence efforts.

Peoria Public Schools campus safety officers will begin working with the Peoria Police Department on weekends to enforce curfews and head off youth violence and other incidents.

Since the Peoria City Council has opted not to fund a $25,000 Cure Violence Assessment, the Peoria City/County Health Department will pick up the tab.

The Peoria City Council is charting a tentative course forward on violence reduction efforts - but members of the public are criticizing what they characterize as a sluggish leadership response among elected officials to public safety issues.

Peoria Mayor Rita Ali said the conversations around the council horseshoe about her trademark of the term "S-NET" and that group's meetings have become a distraction from the real issue of the violence disproportionately impacting Peoria's Black community.

Since late May, the Peoria City Council has kicked a $25,000 assessment from outside violence-interruption group Cure Violence Global around the horseshoe, over and over again.

The Peoria City Council approved a couple of measures bolstering the city’s fire department at Tuesday night’s regular meeting.

The Peoria branch of the NAACP is calling out remarks made to Mayor Rita Ali and about the Cure Violence assessment in last week’s city council meeting.