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Downtown Peoria's biggest needs? Groceries and more restaurants
PEORIA - Downtown Peoria needs a grocery store and more restaurants. That's one of the results of a survey of Downtown r…
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Support melts away on Big 3 salary freeze
PEORIA - Peoria County Board members struggled with setting the salaries of three elected officials for the next four ye…
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Go dine in traffic: 'Street seats' debut at Heights restaurants
PEORIA HEIGHTS - The street seats arrived on Prospect Road on Thursday morning."We're super excited," said Hugh Higgins,…
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Veterans home disease notification requirement heads to Rauner
SPRINGFIELD - Strict standards for notifying Illinois veterans homes' residents and their families of disease outbreaks …
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Washington high school students agree with City Council, 'pass' Tobacco 21 ordinance
WASHINGTON - A handwritten sign on the front door of the Casey's General Store on Washington Road lets customers know th…
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Marshall County employees to get raises
LACON - Most Marshall County employees will get 2 percent annual raises over a three-year period retroactive to Dec. 1, …
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Speedy trial issue emerges in Putnam homicide case
HENNEPIN - The right to a speedy trial has become an issue in the Putnam County case in which a Standard man has been ch…
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Lincoln library foundation says it may have to sell artifacts to pay debt
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation said Thursday it may have to resort to selling artifacts in its poss…
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Illinois lawmakers weigh ban on all formulas of synthetic marijuana
Illinois lawmakers are weighing legislation aimed at preventing manufacturers of synthetic marijuana from skirting laws …
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Eureka suspect held in 1986 Washington state slaying
EUREKA - A suspect in the 1986 slaying of a 13-year-old girl in Washington state was arrested Thursday in Eureka, accord…
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Peorian charged with raping another student at NIU
SYCAMORE - A Northern Illinois University freshman was working on her final project, a charcoal portrait of a woman, in …
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Water company poll: Public opposes donation funding due diligence
PEORIA - A water company-funded poll found that a majority of Peoria voters oppose the idea of the city accepting a loca…
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Sexually transmitted infections continue to rise in Peoria County
PEORIA - Gonorrhea and chlamydia rates in Peoria County have increased by 50 percent since 2016, according to the 2017 S…
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Sculpture Walk Peoria scales back a bit this year
PEORIA - The show will go on for Sculpture Walk Peoria 2018, though there were moments when organizers had their doubts.…
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Milk bank now has a drop-off site in Peoria
PEORIA - Got extra mother's milk? Peoria County now has a place where you can donate it to help sick babies.The Peoria C…
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