Peoria 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.

A grocery store planned for Peoria’s South Side neighborhood is scheduled to open this summer after more than 3 1/2 years of planning.

Work is underway on the $18 million Churchview Garden Homes affordable housing development that will feature 47 units across seven new buildings on the South Side of Peoria.

A one-of-a-kind chemical processing company will move its operations from Nebraska to Peoria’s South Side after agreeing to a range of conditions to address economic and environmental concerns.

Habitat for Humanity Greater Peoria Area will get nearly $1 million to build several new single-family, affordable housing residences on the site of the former McKinley Elementary School.

In July, it will be two years since the Peoria City/County Health Department first took up the funding for Cure Violence, a nonprofit emphasizing communication and intervention to end gun violence.

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorenson says he has not decided yet if he will attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled July 24 address to Congress.

The Peoria City Council is moving forward with sidewalk improvements on the South Side, and preliminary plans for a large new subdivision on the north side.

Plans for the $14 million Churchview Garden Homes project feature a total of 47 units in seven buildings across 2.5 acres near St. Ann's Catholic Church and the OSF Garden Of Hope.