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Kristin McHugh/WCBU With the Peoria mayor’s office and five city council seats at stake in Tuesday's 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 Commission's 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 we'll be above the primary election in the city of Peoria, but I think overall county-wide for this election, you're going to have area...

  TribLIVE's 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 and manner of death are pending the results of an autopsy, the coroner said. The coroner’s offic...

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 personal significance for Pamela Senkler, who has been working to preserve her family’s history.

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 County Clerk John Ackerman said holding the event today held special significance. “Today [Tuesday] ...

Tim Shelley / Peoria Public Radio Originally published on March 11, 2021 6:36 pm One of Tazewell County's 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 Township's 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 Underground Railroad conductors. Pam Senkler is Crosby's great-great-granddaughter. She flew to Mort...