Peoria

The name of a Peoria school will change from Thomas Jefferson to a civil rights activist.

The Board of Education in Peoria has voted to remove the name of the third U.S. president from a city primary school because of his legacy on human rights and slavery

The first coronavirus vaccination in Illinois outside of Chicago was administered Tuesday at a hospital in Peoria with Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state’s top health official observing.

One of the final two regions without heightened restrictions in Illinois has now triggered enhanced mitigations from the state, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday.

Another Illinois region will see heightened coronavirus restrictions beginning this week as Region 3 triggered the state’s mitigation plan, the ninth of Illinois’ 11 regions to do so.

Eight of Illinois’ 11 regions will see added coronavirus restrictions this week as numbers spike across the state.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker imposed new mitigations for another Illinois region as COVID-19 metrics surge, saying state police will be taking “more stringent” measures to ensure businesses follow guidelines.

The last three Illinois regions without enhanced coronavirus mitigations could see new restrictions beginning as soon as this weekend, Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned Wednesday.

Teachers and staff at a central Illinois high school are mourning the weekend deaths of four young women who were killed when their vehicle left a roadway and slammed into a tree. All four women killed in early Sunday’s crash in Peoria were Manual Academy graduates. Authorities identified them as Jazzman Burns, 22, a 2016 graduate; Quanylan Thomas, 19, a…

At least 13 people were shot after a large fight broke out at a gathering in Peoria early Sunday morning. According to Peoria police, officers were called to a large fight near the intersection of Water Street and Hamilton Street at approximately 4:41 a.m. Sunday. During the fight, which started within a group of nearly 200 people, gunfire erupted during…

A 58-year-old registered nurse accused of helping a heartbroken man end his life pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge.

A 9-year-old central Illinois boy believed to have set a fire that led to the deaths of five family members has been arraigned on first-degree murder charges. The Journal Star in Peoria reports Woodford County Circuit Court Judge Charles Feeney on Monday read a juvenile petition citing the murder charges, along with arson counts.

The mother of a 9-year-old Illinois boy who is charged with murder in connection with a mobile home fire that killed five people says the child is “not a monster.”

NBC 7 obtained audio from a 911 call made by a frantic homeowner whose husband used a taser to stop a San Diego Padres starting pitcher from breaking-into their home through a doggie door.

A central Illinois mobile home fire that neighbors called an “inferno” left three young children and two adults dead, authorities said.

Pope Francis on Thursday named Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory as the new archbishop of Washington D.C., choosing a moderate with Chicago ties, and the first African-American, to lead the archdiocese that has become the epicenter of the clergy sex abuse crisis in the U.S.

Authorities are working to confirm whether a body found in the Illinois River is that of a woman who was reported missing in February.

A Peoria nightclub is conducting one-time criminal background checks on customers.

Two Illinois high schools were named among the top 100 in the country and both were in Chicago, according to the latest ranking from US News & World Report.