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Bartonville reveals next steps for this towering 'nuisance' property

The days are numbered for a towering Peoria County eyesore property. Bartonville has purchased the former Allied Mills plant and is looking for a contractor demolish a structure it has deemed a "nuisance" for decades. According to Peoria County property records, the village took control of the property after it had been deemed abandoned last May. The property's former owner, Lord Mic Williams, was forced to give up the property in December 2024 after he had been deemed delinquent in his tax payments to the county. More: 'Nuisance property': Why Bartonville is in conflict with owner of old Allied Mills plant Now, Mayor Leon Ricca is looking to get a contractor in place for demolition before Dec. 1, with the process of demolition likely to take around a year before everything is brought down. "Well, it's out for bid right now," Ricca told the Journal Star. "We've had a lot of interest from demolition contractors around the country. Sometime after Dec. 1, we'll make a determination on which contractor gets awarded the bid. It'll probably take a year to tear it down; a lot of the asbestos has to be remediated from that and from the silos behind it." Ricca

Bartonville, IL · 16h

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Twirl Into Decades Of Family Memories At This Unassuming Illinois Italian Restaurant In Pekin

A sandwich that shares its name with a Venetian boat has been pulling central Illinois families back to the same tables for decades. It’s called the gondola, and some folks still tie it to childhood memories from the early 1990s. The bread gets talked about just as much. It’s...

Pekin, IL · 6d

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Health administrator who guided Peoria County’s COVID 19 response resigns

PEORIA (25News Now) - Monica Hendrickson, the longtime administrator of the Peoria City/County Health Department who helped lead the region through the COVID-19 pandemic, has resigned. A county official said Hendrickson submitted her resignation on Monday, Nov. 2. The resignation was accepted Thursday, Nov. 12. A special meeting of the...

Peoria County, IL · 2h

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Maddy Stephens Sparks A 5-0 Run, But Illini Bluffs' State Semifinal Is Still A BATTLE

Detroit Tigers logo on gradient background - Created by the Sports On Tap desk | Source : Sports On Tap (team logos property of their respective owners) Illini Bluffs is going for it all, locked in a brutal Illinois High School Association Class 1A volleyball state semifinal clash against Athens right now at CEFCU Arena. […]

Glasford, IL · 10h

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Most People Drive Right Past These 7 Illinois Hot Dog Stands That Never Changed A Thing

One stand on this list piles the fries right on top of the hot dog and still won’t hand you ketchup. Another claims credit for putting a batter-dipped hot dog on a stick along old Route 66. I love that kind of stubbornness. Illinois has plenty of flashy food...

Illinois · 22h

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New ALPLM acquisition details Lincoln’s dry-goods purchases

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – Oh, the things you can pick up at auction for two bucks. A Petersburg family has donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a ledger from a local dry-goods store documenting sales for thirteen months in 1836-37. A young lawyer and lawmaker named Abraham Lincoln was a frequent customer, buying, among other things, clothing materials — buttons, fabric, and thread – to likely either make a suit or repair an existing one.

Springfield, IL · 1d

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Peoria County regional superintendent reveals oversight gap in ELITE program as PPS prepares for NOVA Academy

PEORIA (25News Now) - As Peoria Public Schools prepares to replace ELITE Community Outreach’s Game Changer Safe School with its new NOVA Academy, Peoria County’s regional superintendent says confusion over who was responsible for monitoring the program may have allowed compliance issues to go unchecked for years. The...

Peoria County, IL · 2d