PEORIA - With the turning of a spade-fulls - and kitchen spoonfuls - of earth, dozens of residents broke ceremonial ground Saturday morning for the new location for a 153-year-old memorial to Peoria County's Civil War dead in Springdale Cemetery.

PEORIA - Local and city economic-development officials consider 254 acres of vacant Northwest Peoria land to be super.

An interesting executive inspector general report came out last week dealing with parking at an Illinois Department of Transportation facility in Chicago.

PEORIA - A tiny bunny, the size of a child's fist, hopped across the grass of Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

WASHINGTON - Seven handicap-accessible ramps will be installed at three intersections along the south side of West Cruger Road.

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