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The East Peoria City Council has approved a new three-year contract with the union that represents its firefighters, as well as a plan for a quick service drive-through coffee shop near a major intersection.

A plan for one of two restaurant businesses in a shared Warehouse District storefront to serve alcohol has gained initial approval from the Peoria City Council. Whether the Love Shack hamburger shop gets a liquor license remains to be seen.

A well-known bar and grill in the Campustown Shopping Center near Bradley University has closed.

The long-anticipated transformation of the Peoria Park District’s Golf Learning Center into an interactive entertainment facility is now underway.

The owner of a restaurant business hoping to move into the Twin Towers Mall faces another delay following the Peoria City Council’s second deferral of a vote to grant the site a liquor license.

JR Runkel, spokesperson for the investor group behind The Putt Club, provides more details on the year-round, multi-use family entertainment center currently under construction along Interstate 74 near Bass Pro Shops in East Peoria.

The doors at Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que in Peoria are permanently closing.

An upscale restaurant and craft brewpub with a local theme plans to open along Washington's downtown square by the end of next year.

Cynthia Clampitt believes that the Midwest often gets overlooked when it comes to what the region has to offer. Her new book, “Destination Heartland,” seeks to change that.

For a second straight year, Peoria won’t have its traditional St. Patrick’s Day parade. But many of the area’s Irish pubs and other establishments still…