East Peoria Community High School’s decision to spend $20,000 to have its prom at Embassy Suites for the second year in a row may not seem like a pressing issue to most.

Like superintendent Cliff Cobert said, the staff there was very accommodating to students on their special night last year, and it supports a well-known business in the community

As of Jan. 1, names of youth 17 years of age, or younger, will no longer be printed in this publication’s arrest reports and police news.

It is not part of a policy change within this newsroom. Instead, it was a change at the state level that seemed to catch newsrooms off guard throughout Illinois.

The East Peoria Community High School football team qualified for the Illinois High School Association playoffs in Class 5A.
This is quite an accomplishment, as this has not happened since 1989.

Money is tight. The economy is in a slump.

We’ve all heard the expression that sometimes, “It takes money to make money.”

This could apply to the dilemma concerning the Summit Road extension...

If one were to create a list of the greatest man-made assets in Central Illinois, one entity that would surely rank high is Illinois Central College.