Peoria Mayor Rita Ali

The Peoria Next Innovation Center is celebrating 15 years of fostering growing businesses.

Peoria's passenger rail proposal is out the gate with a strong start, but it'll need consistent support from the community to keep the momentum going.

A ridership forecast conducted by engineering consultant Kimley Horn projected an average of 600 riders per day would utilize a passenger rail service running five daily round trips from downtown Peoria to Chicago's Union Station.

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 ongoing furor over the City of Peoria's anti-violence initiatives bled into Mayor Rita Ali's first open Safety Network meeting on Friday.

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.

In her latest monthly conversation with WCBU reporter Joe Deacon, Peoria Mayor Rita Ali addresses various topics including her reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that overturned the Roe v. Wade precedent.

On Wednesday night, Peoria mayor Rita Ali gave her first State of the City. She spoke to the need to draw more people into Peoria through improving housing and addressing safety issues within the community.

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.