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Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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Celebration attendees hope for better future, dance to Maroon 5
SPRINGFIELD - Theresa Coleman knows how difficult paying for higher education can be. The northern Illinois resident has…
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Peoria Public Schools extend Superintendent Desmoulin-Kherat's contract
PEORIA - The school board on Monday approved a new five-year contract worth approximately $1.3 million for Superintenden…
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Winter weather slowing construction of Washington high school music addition
WASHINGTON -- Mother Nature hasn't been kind to workers constructing an addition at Washington Community High School.Inc…
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Pekin City Council approves aerial photography resolution
PEKIN - The Pekin City Council approved a resolution on Monday night to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with T…
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Private school scholarships again up for grabs in Illinois
ROCKFORD - Year two of a controversial taxpayer-funded private school scholarship program kicks off for most families on…
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Dear Monty: Should a homeowner allow others to use property
Reader Question: I own a home that sits on about one-and-a-half acres that is very close to a high school. The back part of my plot is a 20,0000-square-foot plot that was a fallow cornfield when we moved in. The agricultural...
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Springfield House members remind Pritzker about new Illinois jobs law
SPRINGFIELD - On the day that Democrat J.B. Pritzker was inaugurated as governor, the two Republican state representativ…
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Rauner administration reduces Rutan-exempt positions
SPRINGFIELD - Hundreds of state jobs that once were exempt from Rutan anti-patronage protections have been reclassified …
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Government shutdown threatens Section 8 housing in Peoria
PEORIA - The government shutdown that already has some 800,000 federal employees out of work or working without pay coul…
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The flu ramps up in central Illinois
PEORIA - If avoiding miserable symptoms isn't enough reason for getting a flu shot, here's another - the flu kills peopl…
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Preparing to show Peoria apartment, leasing agent finds man lurking inside closet
PEORIA - A leasing agent preparing to show an apartment found a surprise in the closet:A man, and a rather large one at …
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Denied ride in blizzard, grandson trashes grandpa's East Bluff house
PEORIA - A grandfather declined to give his grandson a lift during Saturday's snowstorm, triggering a tantrum of vandali…
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For lust or hunger? Man makes strange snow-shoveling offer to West Bluff woman
PEORIA - A West Bluff woman called police after a drunk man made a peculiar snow-shoveling offer, then left with her gam…
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Gov. Pritzker, other Democrats sworn into statewide offices
SPRINGFIELD - Democrat J.B. Pritzker took office Monday as the state's 43rd governor, delivering a message of bipartisan…
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Strip-club dancer allegedly invokes Trump's name, hurls shot glass and slaps patron
WEST PEORIA - A strip-club dancer was arrested after throwing a shot glass at a customer before slapping the back of his…
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Flu activity prompts area hospitals to limit visitors
PEORIA -Increased flu activity has prompted area hospitals to ask the public to limit hospital visits.OSF HealthCare Sai…
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