Peoria County news briefs
— September 11, 2019EAST PEORIA Take a Tree Walk with University of Illinois Extension University of Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Kelly Allsup will conduct a tree walk at the Illinois Central…
EAST PEORIA Take a Tree Walk with University of Illinois Extension University of Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Kelly Allsup will conduct a tree walk at the Illinois Central…
BLOOMINGTON Annual Cruise-In invites vehicles of all varieties All makes and models of vehicles from antique to modern are welcome at the David Davis Mansion State Historic Site…
Illinois State University ended its recent fiscal year with a record amount of donor dollars. The milestone comes at a time when state financial resources are pinched. In its…
Despite attempts by a group of concerned citizens to keep Peoria public radio station WCBU-FM locally run by Bradley University, the station will soon be managed by WGLT-FM at Illinois…
A three-year-old organization aimed at providing children and their families with the tools for creative expression could relocate to a high-profile area in Normal, based on a recent…
(Fourth in a series looking at the pork-barrel extras included in the state gas tax hike of 19 cents per gallon) Half of the more than $1.6 billion going to public institutions of higher…
SPRINGFIELD — The interim director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education is hopeful a combination of added infrastructure and operations funding for state universities and colleges…
A new book from Illinois State University’s Amy Wood, “Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow” South”, looks at the role criminal justice played as a tool of racial oppression…