Peoria International Airport

Gene Olson, director of Airports for the Metropolitan Airport Authority, says funding holds the key to the complex project to replace the current air traffic control tower that dates back to 1959.

Summer travel figures at Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport are approaching record totals, and the administration is looking at more ways to keep passenger numbers on the rise.

The Peoria International Airport is back operating as normal after an unusual outage of a system maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday morning.

U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos says her chief of staff described the abandoned areas of Peoria International Airport's 63-year-old tower building as being “like ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’”

U.S. Reps. Darin LaHood and Cheri Bustos highlighted a $15 million grant toward a new air traffic control tower at Peoria International Airport, then celebrated $4.5 million in funding for the Peoria Ag Lab.

A $8.4 million grant, announced in late July, will be used for resurfacing projects on the airport’s runways.

Gene Olsen thinks the Peoria International Airport resolved “an existential issue” on Thursday with the announcement of a $15 million federal grant to build a new air traffic control tower.

A winter storm advisory is in effect through 9 p.m. Thursday.

After more than a decade in development efforts and two years since breaking ground, the Illinois National Guard 182nd Airlift Wing has its new fire station at Peoria International Airport.

Peoria International Airport director Gene Olson was the assistant airport manager at Evansville Regional Airport in Indiana on Sept. 11, 2001.