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A new bill plans to change how Peoria Police respond to behavioral crisis calls by adding mental health care workers to their emergency team. If it succeeds in Peoria, it has the possibility of becoming the standard statewide.

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Tuesday that Illinois’ COVID-19 data reporting is changing to align with the CDC’s updated guidelines, which emphasize the case rates and hospitalizations as the most accurate metrics to track the virus.

Three locations along the Peoria riverfront are in the running to become the proposed site of the city's passenger rail station in its upcoming planning study.

The Unit 5 school board on Wednesday approved plans to lease four portable classrooms for Normal Community High School and pay raises for substitute food service workers.

Storm Angone believes the local artistic collective Nap House Studios has become an essential part of the Bloomington-Normal music scene.

Board member Tammy Houtzel resigned her position during a regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday night. Houtzel cited a relocation to LeRoy as the reason for giving up the seat.

Adam Elpayaa spent the pandemic mastering pizza. Now he runs Pizza Payaa, a New York-style pizzeria in Bloomington.

Tazewell County judge Chris Doscotch approved an agreement on Thursday to place Pekin-based Reditus Laboratories in a receivership.

McLean County's largest school district will hold three public forums this month aimed at soliciting community feedback on how the district should address a multimillion-dollar deficit in its education fund.

COVID-19 cases and deaths have begun to rise in Illinois as the newly dominant BA2 variant of the coronavirus moves through the population. It's hard to say just yet whether it will be a mountain of cases or a speed bump, according to the McLean County Health Department.