Western Avenue

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 Fire Department says an overnight blaze at the shuttered KFC restaurant on Western Avenue in West Peoria was set intentionally, with damage estimated at $500,000.

In a broad conversation with WCBU reporter Joe Deacon, Peoria First District City Council member Denise Jackson says the needs for affordable housing and infrastructure improvements in the 61605 zip code have been overlooked for too long.

Peoria announced this week it has been awarded a $1.2 million state grant to fund streetscape upgrades for the next phase of the Western Avenue improvement project.

An overnight explosion led to the total loss of a Western Avenue restaurant early Saturday morning.

When Peoria resident Zaxton Johnson heard the city will begin road construction this spring in front of their home on South Western Avenue, he was quick…