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Peoria, IL, USA 104.9 The Wolf Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — If the proposed Illinois House Bill 3878 passes through the Senate, all documents filed through any recorder of deeds office would increase from $9 to $18. The money collected by recorder of deeds offices goes directly into the state’s Rental Housing Support Program. What that program does, Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman said, seems like a secret. “We’ve requested over the past several years [to know] w...

Pekin Daily Times The Tazewell County Clerks Office will be the first in the state to begin providing certified copies of marriage licenses electronically, officials there announced Tuesday. "This comes in handy for many forms of identification which require certified copies," County Clerk John Ackerman said at a news conference announcing the service, which begins May 1. "It especially comes in handy for Real ID when people are required to have that and may live outside Tazewell County." The o...

Tim Shelley / Peoria Public Radio Starting May 1, the Tazewell County Clerks Office will offer certified marriage license copies online. The office is the first in Illinois, and among the first in the U.S., to offer the service, according to County Clerk John Ackerman. "So if youve been married in Tazewell County, you can pull up an e-certified document for your marriage license for various purposes. Insurance purposes, IDs for Social Security, IDs for drivers license bureau. So that way, yo...

Originally published on April 7, 2021 5:06 pm It will take at least another two weeks to determine the winner of Tuesday’s election to decide who will be Peoria’s first new mayor in 16 years. With just 73 votes – out of just over 16,000 ballots tabulated – separating Jim Montelongo and Rita Ali in the unofficial results from Election Night, the candidates are now in somewhat of a holding pattern.   Peoria County Election Commission Executive Director Tom Bride said elections this tig...

Facebook UPDATED 3:42 p.m. | As voters in Washington elect Gary Manier to a sixth term as mayor, his opponent said shes leaving the door open to another run in the future. "Well just have to see what happens," said Lilija Stevens, who lost Tuesdays election by just 83 votes. "You never know what tomorrow brings." Stevens serves as Ward 1 alderman. She said there are many issues in the citys government that still need addressing. "I really, really would like to do something to increase more c...

Kristin McHugh/WCBU With the Peoria mayor’s office and five city council seats at stake in Tuesdays municipal election, Thomas Bride expects turnout to be above average in the city – but that may not hold as true throughout the county. Bride, the Peoria County Election Commissions executive director, said early voting participation is  up 28% from two years ago, and noted February’s primary was up 6% over compared with recent primaries. “I think well be above the primary election in...

  TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A Sewickley Township woman has been identified as the person who was killed Friday night in a two-vehicle crash along Route 136 in Hempfield. The woman, Joann Wardzek, 58, of Wolfe Lane, was pronounced dead at the scene along Route 136 between Edna Road and Lower Lane at 8 p.m. Friday by Deputy Coroner John Ackerman, the Westmoreland County Coroner’s office said. The cause...

Pekin Daily Times As the sound of hoof beats and the baying of hounds on the rural road heralds the approach of a posse, the farmer urgently ushers the group of fugitives through a trap door. When the fleeing family is safely sequestered, the farmer’s wife covers the trap door with a buffalo-skin rug and places their infant son’s crib atop the rug. The farmer lights a cigar to befuddle the hounds while his wife scolds the arriving posse for waking the baby. The event described above holds a...

Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD MORTON, Ill. — Tazewell County held the first recognition Tuesday of Underground Railroad Coordinators throughout the county, as people gathered to honor the individuals at Hirstein Cemetery. The Underground Railroad was a network of people that offered shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. The event Tuesday honored Uriah Crosby, who is buried in the cemetery, as well as Daniel, Darius, Walter and John Roberts in Roberts Cemetery. Tazewell Co...

Tim Shelley / Peoria Public Radio Originally published on March 11, 2021 6:36 pm One of Tazewell Countys documented Underground Railroad conductors was recognized Tuesday with a new marker heralding his secret work freeing people from slavery. Uriah Crosby was honored Tuesday at his grave site in Morton Townships Hirstein Cemetery on what would have been his 210th birthday. "He was a very outspoken abolitionist," said Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman, who researched Crosby and other Und...