Rita Ali

A weekend confrontation between Peoria Police officers trying to assist a gunshot victim and a crowd of more than 50 bystanders has led to multiple arrests, prompted a statement from the mayor, and drawn scrutiny from a civil rights organization.

A national gaming, entertainment and tech festival is coming to downtown Peoria beginning next year, with organizers expecting to attract tens of thousands of guests.

With public transit systems around Chicagoland and across Illinois approaching a fiscal cliff, proposed legislation in Springfield would provide financial assistance to more than 50 downstate agencies.

The City of Peoria submitted a successful bid of a little more than $1.2 million on Wednesday to secure its planned acquisition of Exposition Gardens.

As many Peoria residents cope with skyrocketing electricity bills, city leaders are seeking an explanation for the summer’s surging energy prices.

Peoria city leaders seem receptive to the notion of using small dwellings as temporary housing for unsheltered individuals, but they want more details before moving forward with necessary changes to building and zoning codes.

Jessica Linder Gallo thinks the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce can act as a conduit between businesses, community organizations and city leaders as Peoria works to overcome its housing shortage.

Peoria’s need for more residential development to address historically low available housing emerged as a focal point of Mayor Rita Ali’s annual State of the City address on Thursday.

The City of Peoria is hoping to facilitate a large-scale residential development by acquiring the nearly 70-acre Exposition Gardens property on Northmoor Road.

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.