East Peoria News

Illinois Central College is poised to spend nearly $40 million in expansion and renovation to its facilities and educational programs over the next five years that officials say are necessary to meet existing ...

Developer Mark Petersen was on hand Tuesday at East Peoria's City Council meeting to unveil his plans for a six-story Holiday Inn to be built on the city's riverfront.

Another landmark restaurant has come to the end of the line in Peoria. Vonachen's Old Place, a fixture in the Junction City shopping center with its train-car dining car since 1956, has announced it will not ...

One hundred years young, family and friends say that's the best way to describe Helen Davis.

Due to a water main break in East Peoria, the city's Department of Public Works says there will be an interruption of service and a boil order is issued until further notice.

After more than 20 years of service to the city of East Peoria, the fire chief is leaving.

John Q. Hammons, one of the richest men in the nation, says he's coming to East Peoria next week to tell the city's leaders he's not happy with them.

Lightning causes a fire early Monday morning at a Bradley University off campus apartment building.

If you live in East Peoria, Washington or Creve Coeur, you may have come across a German program on your public access channel.

Coming off the stage after eating 14 hot dogs in nine minutes, and winning $1,000 for his gut-stretching effort, John Palmgren of East Peoria was already thinking strategy for future gorges.

Peorians looking for local Fourth of July entertainment only have to drive as far as the Peoria Riverfront or East Peoria's RiverFront Park.

For the second time in less than a year, a state panel rejected a proposal to build a 128-bed nursing home in East Peoria that would be called Liberty Village.

This year's fourth is being billed as the biggest bash ever. The Methodist Red, White and Boom will take place on Friday and local business owners have been preparing to cash in on it for months.

Summer is officially here, and gardens are in full bloom. Beer gardens, that is.

The biggest show in the region, the Methodist "Red, White and Boom" will take place over the Peoria and East Peoria riverfronts on July 4. And just as a great barbecue takes everything from baked beans to corn ...

Is it hypocrisy or perhaps irony? Either way, the United Auto Workers say it's unrelated.

A month of confrontations between the Peoria Public Library Board and the City Council has renewed interest in discussing whether the library should be an autonomous district with elected representatives ...

Bike technician Brent Mueller rides in tandem with Ryan Wetherill, 7, of Peoria as special needs children take part in the Lose the Training Wheels Summer Camp, sponsored by Easter Seals at the East Peoria ...

Jim Maloof, he of the incredible memory and indefatigable enthusiasm, wanted to jump for joy when he heard about Caterpillar Inc.'s plans to invest $1 billion in its Illinois plants, including those around ...

Illinois college signs pact with university in Liberia >Jun. 17, 2008 NOTE: Photographs are available at http://umns.umc.org . >By Paul Black* EAST PEORIA, Ill.