East Peoria News

The annual East Peoria Carnival will take place May 22 through 26 in the parking lot at the Festival Building, 2200 E. Washington St.

The camp which will operate on the East Peoria Campus is for children ages 6-12 and will be staffed from 6:45 a.m.-5 p.m. A variety of enrollment rates are available, ranging from daily to weekly to the entire summer.

The Bob Michel Bridge over the Illinois River will be closed to all traffic from 6:30 until 9 a.m. Sunday, May 19 due to the River City Marathon, according to the East Peoria Police Department.

A homeless man is behind bars after allegedly luring and restraining a 10 year old boy behind the city post office Friday afternoon.

A Tazewell County jury Friday afternoon found a Peoria man guilty of all charges in an East Peoria homicide last year.

For the third straight year, the UnityPoint Health-Methodist Red White and Boom will feature a pyrotechnics show with a six-figure cost for fireworks.

Residents of Kaitlin Court and Sunnybrook Drive were evacuated from their homes after heavy rains caused a landslide in their backyards.

Hello out there, cupcakes. If you are reading this article, there is a good chance that it's because you dyed your hair in a bathroom that does not belong to you.

Five to seven million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year.

There are four homes in East Peoria that have been temporarily condemned. The properties lost their back yards and part of their decks down a landslide after heavy rainfall.

A bill allowing the transfer of ownership of Wildlife Prairie State Park in Peoria County to a non profit group passed the Illinois Senate Thursday and is now in the hands of the governor.

The Illinois Central College british literature class will present a Readers' Theatre version of the Jane Austen novel "Pride and Prejudice" at 2 p.m. April 30 in the Lecture Recital Hall at the East Peoria campus.

They didn't know it when they first started plotting to open the first distillery in central Illinois in who knows how long, but the brothers Williams both have a little bit of whiskey in their blood.

The Red Cross has shelters open across the Midwest helping thousands of flood victims.

Flooding Updates:Tazewell County: There is a possibility that the Spring Lake Levee could overtop according to US Army Corps of Engineers .

Police officers were going door-to-door in the affected neighborhood on Monday. Officials in the central Illinois city say water from the Illinois River is backing up into storm drains.

The city of E. Peoria has shut down camp street behind the Levee District due to the rising flood waters.