Pekin News

Technician Corey Miller works on replacing a brake pedal in a Toyota Camry at Fort's Toyota in Pekin on Monday.

Voters are getting a reminder about Primary day coming up next Tuesday. Two years ago Illinois, like many states moved up the Primary election.

Pekin police have identified the man found inside a burning SUV Wednesday night.

Students at a Pekin elementary school learned more about a country that's half-a-world away.

Daryl Steele still talks about that one house south of Morton, Ill. Steele, a state licensed radon measurement specialist, tested the house for radon and found the level at 99 pCi/L . The level of radon was off the charts, considering that any home at 4 pCi/L or above is strongly urged to have a radon removal system installed.

As many across the US get ready for the 2010 census, a group in Pekin is already counting... not citizens... but birds.

A local high school show choir has been chosen to compete at the Grand Ole Opry.

There has been a fatal collision on Route 29 Wednesday morning. It happened about a quarter mile North of South Pekin around 7:30 a.m. This picture of the scene was posted on our YouNews part of this site.

Under bankruptcies in today's WSJ is Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc. with their major manufacturing facility and home office listed as 120 North Parkway Drive, Pekin, Il.

Community leaders and students in Pekin paid tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther king Saturday morning.

A Pekin man who was given a 24-month probation sentence Friday for a hate crime was arrested Saturday for domestic battery.

A 16-year-old boy narrowly escaped a train wreck with his life this morning. The incident happened in the 200 block of Derby Street in Pekin.

As many of us know... jobs are hard to come by in Central Illinois But Governor Quinn says thirty million dollars - through the Illinois jobs now plan - will bring some much needed openings to Pekin.

With snow fall comes snow removal and parking bans. Most cities in our viewing areas will put a parking ban in effect after two inches of snow have fallen.

While the majority of the school districts in our viewing area canceled school today, one major one did not.

Pekin police need your help tracking down a missing woman. They're looking for 37-year-old Keri Gillenwater.

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First snow and now below freezing temperatures to go with it. The weather forecast is not looking good for Central Illinois.

This is the big night for the man in red. So just what does he do to get ready for his all-night shift on Christmas Eve? Eric Shangraw has breakfast with Saint Nick in this week's You Gotta Eat.

Negotiations resumed Monday between striking workers and a Pekin company. With double digit unemployment, how did workers at PAL Health Technologies decide to declare a strike for the first time ever.