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A new pizza joint has taken the small town of Lacon by storm. Eric Shangraw tries the Mediterranean Chicken at The Pizza Peel in this week's You Gotta Eat.

The victim of an April-shooting lived on through family and friends all over Central Illinois today, as her alleged killer awaits trial.

Sgt. Dean Baize, a 20-year veteran of the Chillicothe Police Department, always looks forward to working Summerfest, that annual, four-day gathering of 10,000 to 12,000 music lovers at Three Sisters Park on Illinois Route 29 south of the town.

The Tri-City Women's Connection will hold a lunch meeting at 12:30 p.m. June 16 at the Grecian Gardens in Chillicothe.

A Peoria man is headed to court after a fatal hit and run early Friday morning. Gary Street is accused of hitting 19a 'yeara 'old Shea Saterlee with his picka 'upa 'truck around midnight and then leaving the scene.

Images by: Chad Smith & Norman Sands Summer Camp :: 05.21.09 - 05.24.09 :: Three Sisters Park :: Chillicothe, IL Summer Camp 2009 by Smith Being a Bonnaroo veteran, I couldn't help being a little excited getting to Three Sisters Park last Thursday night for the pre-party and not having to wait for a single car.

It's not exactly the courtyard of Topkapi Palace, but Daley Plaza makes a fine open-air setting for the seventh annual Chicago Turkish Festival offering free admission.

Okra. Green beans. Tomatoes. Potatoes . . . "Kids will plant these," Crittenton Centers volunteer and special events coordinator Jennifer Simmons said Tuesday.

Herbert and Juanita Cyprian of Alton are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary at a reception to be hosted by their children from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 17, at Julia's Banquet Room at Alton Square.

Normally in these pages we like to spread the news about entertainment events that are headed your way.

After two years of meetings and $54,000 spent on a consultant's study, the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Riverfront Development was quietly decommissioned Monday at the end of a special meeting of the Chillicothe City Council.

Morgan Friedrich is not a farm girl, but Wednesday she turned over rich, wet earth as she walked a plow behind a team of draft horses under dark, watery skies at Three Sisters Park.

Residents living near Old Galena Road in Peoria County question why this paved entrance/exit recently appeared leading into a farm field owned by a development group that wants to build a gravel pit there.

Three people face charges after being indicted for allegedly participating in the holdup of the Family Dollar store on Harman Highway last month.

When a friend visited Kevin Peterson's rural Chillicothe home recently to fish in his pond, it was impossible for him not to notice the 5-foot-tall, 100-pound emu pecking on corn kernels in a pen out back.

Speaking of tea parties, join The Women of Worship during their 2nd annual Mother-Daughter tea on May 2. The event, which will include a light lunch, begins at 2 p.m. at the Higher Dimensions Praise & Worship Church, 2610 W. Nebraska Ave.

Town hall event PRINCETON - A live nationwide Internet broadcast featuring Dave Ramsey speaking on the the topic “The Economy, Your Money, Real Answers” will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at the New Hope Church of the Nazarene, 30 N. Sixth St.

WMBD/WYZZ -- Chillicothe - Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias' office conducted a Cash Dash search Wednesday afternoon at the Chillicothe Public Library.

By Gary Fyke CHILLICOTHE, IL - It is often said by farmers in the Midwest that potatoes should be planted on Good Friday.