DECATUR, Ill (WAND) – There was an outside chance Lake Decatur could have become Lake Peoria if the Decatur City Council had not taken the right steps in the 1920s. A.E. Staley needed a water ...

A man drowned Saturday in a lake where he owned property in Peoria County. Peoria County Sheriff's Office deputies responded at about 11:36 a.m. to the 100 block of East Santa Fe Road on a report ...

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires has caused air quality conditions to worsen in recent hours, according to the National Weather Service.

It was a completely different look for the Lake County Captains in their doubleheader with the Peoria Chiefs on Aug. 19. In the first game at Classic Auto Group Park, the Captains’ pitching and ...

Corrections & Clarifications: Peoria Vice Mayor Jon Edwards' first name was misspelled in an earlier version of the article. At a plant nursery near Lake Pleasant last June, farming supplies ...