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MORTON — Only about 2% of the calls the Morton Fire Department responds to are in the Groveland Fire Protection District. But when district officials asked Dec. 7 for a reduction in the annual amount the district pays the village of Morton for fire and emergency medical services, citing financial shortfalls, the officials got some heat from the Village Board. "This isn't the village's problem," said trustee Steve Leitch, who suggested the district put a tax increase referendum on the ballot. "We shouldn't subsidize them," said trustee Ken Newman. Trustees voted 5-1 against the district's pr...

MORTON – Jason and Amanda Parker will open a tattoo parlor Tuesday in downtown Morton.  The tattoo parlor won't be in the downtown location at 142 S. Main St. the husband-and-wife team and business partners coveted — they still harbor some bitterness about that — but they're thrilled with their 1,000-square-foot space less than two blocks away at 330 S. Main St., in the same building as the V Gallery portrait studio. "The people who didn't want us opening a tattoo parlor in our desired location will see that a tattoo parlor is not something to fear," said tattoo artist Jason Parker....

MORTON -- By the spring or summer of 2022, the village of Morton will have something that no other community in Illinois will have. It's a state-of-the-art system to remove ammonia from raw water before the water is treated and distributed. Work began in December on a $10.8 million project that will improve Morton's water treatment facility at 500 Detroit Ave. Morton residents and businesses will not see a spike in their water bill to pay for the project -- unlike regular increases residents in nearby East Peoria are seeing for wastewater repairs. Morton Mayor Jeff Kaufman, who was on the Vi...