City, county are under traffic-collision alerts

PEORIA - Under Monday morning's snowfall, the City of Peoria and Peoria County have issued traffic-collision alerts.

PEORIA - Snow elsewhere has prompted cancellations and delays at Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport.

PEORIA - The Peoria Public Schools board of education approved a compromise Monday by agreeing to extend the contract with Peoria Charter Academy, but for two years, not five, and with conditions attached for it to remain in operation beyond the 2021-22 school year.

PEORIA - For Hal Fritz and Bruce Thiemann, the idea of a woman as the next statue for the county's newest war memorial is altogether fitting and proper.

LAKE FOREST - It was hard to escape the feeling during Matt Nagy's weekly postmortem that the Chicago Bears season has devolved to the same point as our current politics.