Peoria South Side

Approval of plans to turn a former homeless shelter and mental health facility into a 12-bedroom halfway house for parolees remains on hold after another delay by the Peoria City Council.

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.

The Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity is again in need of a new CEO following the resignation of Denise Moore after just four months.

A donation celebrating two 100-year anniversaries is bringing water softening equipment to Peoria’s South Side Mission.

Two Peoria organizations are working together on an initiative to boost home ownership possibilities for low-income households on the city’s South Side, with financial assistance from the health department.

A long-sought rehabilitation of one of Peoria’s major South Side roadways will get underway in the next few weeks.

After more than three years in planning, an affordable housing project for seniors 55 and over is on its way to Peoria’s near South Side, tabbed as a key piece of the MacArthur Corridor Revitalization.

The head of a relatively new Peoria nonprofit hopes a state grant of close to $1 million will spark investor interest in a proposed affordable housing development with a clean energy component on the city’s South Side.

After several years in the making, the South Side Mission’s new thrift store in Peoria’s 61605 neighborhood is now open.

The City of Peoria will receive almost $500,000 more in state grant funding for a program to demolish abandoned, vacant and unsafe houses on the city’s South Side.