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Pekin City Council bridges budget impasse
PEKIN - After three meetings with no budget agreements and a contentious budget proposal by the Pekin city manager invol…
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Comcast project to affect traffic on Southwest Jefferson in Downtown Peoria
PEORIA - A project for Comcast Corp. will slow traffic next week on a stretch of Southwest Jefferson Avenue in Downtown …
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Shaun Livingston creates scholarship for minority students
PEORIA - Shaun Livingston and his wife, Joanna, want local minority students to have the same opportunity he had to atte…
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Federal judge calls out special counsel's tactics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal judge in Virginia on Friday sharply questioned the motivations of special counsel Robert Mue…
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Stark County malnutrition-related trial set for December
TOULON - A Stark County couple accused of knowingly causing the death of a young disabled woman through long-term malnut…
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Stark County Board would cut clerk's salary and freeze it and three others
TOULON - The Stark County clerk and recorder's salary would be cut by 12 percent when a new person takes over that offic…
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Four mumps cases confirmed at WIU in Macomb
MACOMB - Four cases of mumps have been confirmed among students at Western Illinois University's Macomb campus.In a news…
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Peorian held in McLean County Jail on cocaine charges
BLOOMINGTON - A Peoria man who is on parole was arrested Wednesday in McLean County during an investigation into the sal…
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Morton man tells his tale of kidney/pancreas transplant
PEORIA - When Matt Polk was put on the kidney transplant list in 2016, he had no idea his diabetes would be cured in the…
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Peoria County farmers regroup after second coldest April stalled planting
PEORIA - Ideal planting conditions that followed the extended cold streak into April allowed central Illinois farmers to…
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Teen arrested after West Peoria house sustains damage in fire
WEST PEORIA - A vacant house in West Peoria caught fire Friday. Nobody appeared to be injured.A 17-year-old male was arr…
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Saddle Up night club institutes criminal background check policy on customers
PEORIA - A Downtown Peoria night club has instituted a new policy that will include running a one-time criminal backgrou…
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Caterpillar taps Andrew Bonfield for CFO post
DEERFIELD - Caterpillar Inc. has selected a new chief financial officer in the wake of Brad Halverson's retirement from…
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Nick in the AM: Arts program at old Greeley School endorsed, but questions remain
The conversion of the former Greeley School building into an artists' colony has received an initial municipal recommend…
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LISTEN: The 'brothers' of Pour Bros. Craft Taproom
Pour Bros. Taproom owners Jason Fowler, far left, Nathan Monroe, second from left, and Robbie Mathisen, third from left,…
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