WCBU Reports

The termination of the Cure Violence program has raised questions and prompted a criminal investigation into possible financial malfeasance. Mayor Rita Ali discusses the problems with the program and how the void it left behind can be filled.

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Peoria recently agreed to spend $1.75 million to buy the downtown PNC Bank Building, along with an adjoining office building and parking deck. In part one of our latest monthly interview with Peoria Mayor Rita Ali, she explains the benefits of the acquisition.

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If you’re feeling exhausted at your workplace, it’s not just you. Experts say the American workforce is undergoing a “Great Exhaustion.”

The term, coined in a Dec. 2023 New Yorker article, is how West Virginia University Chair and Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychology James Berry describes the phenomenon resulting in 60% or more of the U.S. workforce saying they are “moderately burnt out” or more.

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A cluster of urban greenery running along six blocks of Western Avenue near Bradley University may not seem like anything terribly remarkable to a casual passerby, but this grassroots park isn't quite like any other in Peoria.

The Western Avenue Greenway Project isn't managed by the city of Peoria or by the Peoria Park District, but by the neighbors themselves.

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The average American household throws away more than a thousand dollars of food every year. The Food and Drug Administration estimates that, nationally, 30 to 40 percent of the food supply is wasted annually.

Fortunately, there are paths for food waste that don’t end at the landfill.

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Peoria is the largest city in Illinois without a senior wellness and activity center. Peggy Jacques is spearheading a push to get a senior center built in Peoria.

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The city of Delavan in southern Tazewell county is making a reinvigorated push to revitalize its historic downtown corridor.

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The organization Peoria Grow Your Own distributed a $5,000 grant among 9 women last year, for necessities like professional clothing, gas and childcare.

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If you've ever been on the operating table, there's a good chance you took it for granted that the medical staff surrounding you were certified to do their jobs.While that's mostly the case, there's one job specific to surgery where that may not always be true.A bill in Springfield is seeking to change that.

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A growing number of hospitals are looking for other solutions to no-show appointments, instead of costly fees.

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