The State Museum in Springfield and Dickson Mounds, a museum built atop burial mounds, is in Lewistown, southwest of Peoria. Combined, the two institutions hold the second-largest collection of Native ...

The Peoria Tribe has historic ties to central Illinois, having lived for centuries in the current-day Lake Michigan and St. Louis areas ... “put on hold indefinitely” because of a federal freeze on ...

Peoria will spend roughly $41,000 on the long-running career development program. Annual funding for Peoria's AmeriCorps program is roughly $425,000 a year. In a resounding swell of support, the ...

Ben Mahan was approved as the new Peoria High athletics director at Monday's Peoria Public Schools board meeting. The Peoria High health department chair takes over for Brien Dunphy, who will ...

Joaquin Enriquez. MCSO Lake Patrol detectives were en route to investigate, Enriquez said around 8 p.m. Sunday. Peoria Fire-Medical Department also responded to the scene about 6:15 p.m ...

PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily)— As thousands of students get set to graduate from Arizona State University this upcoming week, one of those who will walk across the stage is a Valley teenager who isn’t ...

Once production on the new model ramps up, the company expects to employ 300 to 500 people in Peoria, he said. The buses cost about $250,000 to $300,000 each, D’Hollander said.

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.

The Apollo was the first theater in Peoria designed exclusively for showing movies. The venue's history includes a tragedy-born construction, live performing canaries, the screening of a birth ...

Illinois basketball has come calling for Quinton Kitt. The East Peoria sophomore announced on social media Sunday afternoon that he's received a scholarship offer from the Fighting Illini.