Katie Welch, a seventh-grade math teacher, was named West Central Regional Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education. The state board of education also honored other educators ...

A Nashville-based broadcaster has launched a new television station in Peoria, Illinois, giving viewers of over-the-air TV ...

Peoria’s history includes more than its connection to Caterpillar, said Curtis. He said it was also a stop for enslaved African Americans traveling the Underground Railroad.

Illinois state Rep. Ryan Spain, R-Peoria, discusses a dot chart prepared by University of Michigan research Jowei Chen showing diluted Republican voting power because of gerrymandering in the ...

Mapmaking in Illinois is a process that invariably becomes deadlocked and the name of the party chosen to draw the map is pulled from a hat. It's gone to Democrats after the U.S. Census the last ...

PEORIA (25News Now) - A Peoria business that left Downtown Peoria last May has announced its closure. Gone Social said that they are permanately closed, in a post on Facebook. The business owners ...

For the first time on record, every metropolitan area based in Illinois ... Census Bureau data released. From July 2017 to July 2018, the Chicago metro area experienced the largest raw population ...

A 26-year-old man was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday for killing a 24-year-old man in South Peoria in September 2022. Dominicue Linwood was charged with first-degree murder in ...

On Nov. 5, voters across the U.S. cast final ballots that will set the direction of the country, state and local municipalities for years to come. Heading into Election Day, Democrat Kamala Harris ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — After a five-and-a-half-year process, Central Illinois Friends opened its community center on Monday and let members of the public take tours around the new facility.

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: Among the dozens of Biden-era executive orders that President Trump revoked on Monday was one that had reversed the first Trump administration’s unprecedented policy of altering ...