East Peoria News

A rough start to the holiday season for one East Peoria family. East Peoria fire investigators have been called in to determine the cause of a smoky house fire late Tuesday afternoon.

It's a tradition for many in Central Illinois. The Festival of Lights is here. Monday night the wreath was lit and will glow bright in East Peoria until January.

East Peoria police are hunting for a suspect who robbed the Smoothie King Monday afternoon.

Nearly 30 local farmers and property owners attended a unique program, "Wind Energy 101, from a Landowner's Perspective," Monday at Pitstick Pavilion to learn the economics and logistic details of placing a wind farm on their land.

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The University of Illinois Springfield in Peoria recently opened a new University of Illinois A Peoria Center in the Illinois Central College Perley Building, Room 120, on 115 Southwest Adams Street in Peoria, Illinois.

If you are in the giving mood this Christmas, there are a number of organizations in Peoria, Illinois looking for Christmas volunteer work and charitable donations.

Area veterans are being honored Monday for their service to our country. Multimedia The East Peoria Veterans Recognition program took place at the Para 'Aa 'Dice hotel.

SYCAMORE – Sycamore Fire Chief Bill Riddle is planning to retire in May 2010.

Dixon's Zach Payne and Sterling's Jacob Landis run Saturday during the Class 2A East Peoria Regional at Illinois Central College.

An East Peoria man is being sought internationally for defrauding the government.

The U-I-S Peoria Center was previously located on the I-C-C campus in East Peoria.

A Peoria teenager, one of four people arrested in connection with a string of at least 36 car burglaries in Tazewell and Woodford Counties, was sentenced Friday in Tazewell County Circuit Court.

The Tazewell County Health Department has run out of the H1N1 vaccine as it waits on its next shipment.

In Pekin fire forced occupants and employees out of the Holiday Inn Express this morning.

BATAVIA – City officials have reached an early retirement agreement with fire marshal Tom Springer as the city continues to search for ways to save money in the face of declining revenues during the sluggish economy.

The Illinois Department of Transportation announces that, weather permitting, crews will be working at the intersection of West Washington St.

The St. Louis man, dubbed by East Peoria's police chief as the dumbest criminal he's ever seen, is being detained by police in Minnesota after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

A Peoria teenager was indicted Thursday by a Tazewell County Grand Jury for allegedly resisting police in connection with what police are describing as a gang related weekend fight and shooting at Illinois Central College in East Peoria last month.

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