(contributed) Judy Ward listens during an El Dorado City Council meeting. Ward has represented Ward 2, Position 2 since 2005.

The lane closure on the McClugage Bridge (U.S. 150) over the Illinois River will be extended for a week, with traffic from Adams Street required to yield when merging onto U.S. 150, and drivers ...

Peoria will purchase the building from Cullinan Properties. The company bought the properties in May for $1.2 million with plans to redevelop them into luxury residences.. However, Cullinan ...

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were gunned down in what authorities say was a ...

PEORIA — LiV Warfield's performance was worth its weight in gold Tuesday on the NBC reality competition show, "America's Got Talent." The Peoria-born 1997 Notre Dame High School graduate ...

PEORIA — Illinois saw a second player go into the NCAA football transfer portal on Thursday, this time from the defensive side of the ball. Reserve defensive back Tyler Strain, who has one ...

The city of Peoria received a $2 million grant from the state that it will in turn give to the Salvation Army to build a new homeless shelter on the 400 block of Southwest Jefferson Avenue.

Illinois’ political leaders are reacting to the U.S. military’s strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran.. President Donald Trump announced the strikes had already been carried out shortly before 7 p.m.

The Trump Administration cannot withhold billions of dollars in transportation grant funding from Democrat-led states refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement, according to a ruling on ...