PEORIA - Carelessly discarded smoking materials sparked a fire Saturday that caused $20,000 in damage to an assisted-living center, according to the Peoria Fire Department.

PEORIA - The East Bluff could use some place for youths to play basketball outdoors in the summertime.

PEORIA - See that dateline?It's been famous for a very long time. People long have wondered about that place.

PEORIA - With just three days left, April has been a month that Peoria would just as soon forget.

You could say it was a bit of an up and down week for Gov. JB Pritzker.