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PEORIA — City leaders are looking to help businesses hurt by COVID-19 restrictions by cutting some of their costs associated with liquor license and video-gaming permits.  Taverns and eateries have been battered by the mitigations, which have barred in-person service for months at a time. And even when it was allowed, the seating capacity inside was limited.  So, City Hall is proposing changes to the liquor license renewals. But the key tenet is that only those who abide by the COVID-19 restrictions currently in place are allowed to benefit from the plan. "If a license holder who pays a ...

PEORIA — The former owners of the Hotel Pere Marquette were indicted this week on charges of money laundering and mail fraud.  A 26-page indictment, returned late Tuesday, accuses Gary Matthews and Monte Brannan of diverting $750,000 of hotel funds to themselves after the hotel went into foreclosure. They are accused of taking approximately $1.6 million away from the hotel's bank accounts and putting it into their own.  The charges allege the two men caused $13.8 million to be moved from a hotel management account into an account they controlled.  The project has become an albatro...

Peoria, IL, USA 104.9 The Wolf 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy PEORIA, Ill. – The City of Peoria has signed off on a long-range plan that aims gradually to eliminate its use of combined sewer overflow. The $109 million plan aims to fully reduce CSO by Dec. 31, 2039. The implementation of the plan comes by mandate of the Environmental Protection Agency in connection with the Clean Water Act. The act states municipalities cannot drain wastewater into federal waters without a permit. While Peoria has for years maintained this permit, the EPA has ordered the city to develop a plan to drain these water...

City of Peoria The City of Peoria officially has a plan to address its combined sewer overflow problem. During a special meeting Tuesday, the City Council unanimously voted to approve a consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ending 14 years of negotiations over violations of the Clean Water Act. “We pivoted a number of years ago to come up with this, really what’s a 100% ‘green’ solution, the first in the country,” said Mayor Jim Ardis. “We really felt like we would be setting the new standard for other communities to look at when they're working with U.S....

Dana Vollmer / WCBU Peoria Police Chief Loren Marion III is retiring next month. Marion has been with the Peoria Police Department for 26 years. Law enforcement careers are a family tradition. His grandfather, Frank Smith, was the Bellevue police chief. And Marion's father was a Peoria patrolman for three decades before his 2009 retirement from the department. “I feel the Department is moving in the right direction. We are ahead of many agencies throughout the country in our policies/procedures, technology and training," said Marion in a prepared statement on Monday. During Marion's tenur...