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Metamora wins their Class 4A semifinal game over Rochester, 41-40, sending them to Champaign and the IHSA State Football Finals.
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The Richwoods Knights lose to the Joliet Catholic Hilltoppers 54-7 in a Class 5A state semifinal at Richwoods High School.
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Red Cross volunteers assessed damages during mock training in Peoria Saturday morning.
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On Second Street Saturday afternoon the 60th annual Chillicothe Christmas Parade was held.
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Thursday night David Cook performed at the Peoria Civic Center Theater.
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Buildings in the Peoria skyline begin to emerge from a fog hovering in the Illinois River valley early Friday.
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Brimfield High School students return to the high school after lunch Friday at the junior high school across the street. The planned construction of a new high school will provide the students with their own cafeteria. In the Frebruary elections, the school district is asking for $13 million in bonds to be issued to pay for construction of a new $16.5 million high school.
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Investigators work at the scene of a fatal fire at a home at 2408 NE Monroe St. Thursday. A neighbor, Robert Halverson, came out of his house about 6:15 a.m. to get his newspaper and saw flames through the window of the house across the street and called 911. A heavily secured front door initially prevented firefighters from entering the house and forced them to quell the fire from the front window.
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Hannah West, 17, of Geneseo, begns a therapeutic walk in the hall Thursday at Children's Hospital of Illinois Thursday. West was transferred to the Peoria hospital with bacterial pneumonia and H1N1 flu. West, at Children's Hospital since Oct. 26, began therapy after removal of a ventilator required for treatment. Helping West at left is respiratory therapist Jeanette Stewart and physical therapist Kate Mabry, right.
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Maroon 5 came to Peoria Wednesday night, playing the Peoria Civic Center Theatre to the delight of over 2,200 fans.
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Breast surgeon Lynne Jalovec, center, and Jessica Guingrich, medical director of breast imagery at OSF Saint Francis Centers for Breast Health, discuss a case at the center Wednesday afternoon. Jalovec says new standards calling for routine mamograms to begin after age 50 rather than 40 amount to rationing of care that will be detrimental for women in the most productive years of their lives. "It's ludicrous," Jalovec said.
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Reversing a trend from the last ten years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more adults are smoking than in years past. Jay Waree of Peoria, taking a smoke break inside Discount Tobacco, 4325 N Sheridan Road, said that he figured that the economy and people losing their jobs could easily explain the uptick. Waree said, "To me, it's a bad thing, but people develop new habits...when times are like this."
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Peoria County Sheriffs deputies exit a house at 2114 N. North St. in Peoria Wednesday where Peoria County Jail escapee James E. Fuller was apprehended.
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Juanita Swanson of Chillicothe, holds a candle and reflects with others at Tuesday evening's candle lighting ceremony at the Alzheimer's Association Central Illinois Chapter at 606 W. Glen to commemorate National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month. Swanson also read a poem to those gathered in honor of her mother who was inflicted with the disease.
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Sharlissa Briggs crosses Adams Street in downtown Peoria on her way to Workforce Network Tuesday morning. Pedestrians should bundle up and take their umbrellas again today with a 70 percent chance of more rain and temperatures in the mid 40s.
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Pumpkin farmer John Ackerman walks through a neighbor's waterlogged pumpkin field Tuesday afternoon while discussing the difficulties of this year's harvest. Ackerman's own 33-acre field of processing pumpkins, which is not near a paved road, was unaccessible do to muddy conditions. Though yields were good this year, heavy rains have make it difficult of Libby to get their equipment into the fields to harvest. The company announced Tuesday that there will likely be a pumpkin shortage later this year.
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Two inmates escape from Peoria County Jail.
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Dick Cox, Aktion Club administrator for the Kiwanis' Illinois-Eastern Iowa District, looks on as Pekin club vice president Penny Raithel rings the bell during the club's charter meeting last week.
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Troops from the 182nd Airlift Wing are welcomed home at the Air National Guard Base in Peoria Monday afternoon.
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Taylor Koehrsen, a junior at Metamora High School repeats as the Journal Star's Tennis Player of Year.
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Karen Roche's 3,000 square-foot home is both elegant and handicapped accessible.
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Peoria is having a rash of arson fires this year, including three fires at this home at 912 McClure.
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Michael Fleming, 4, readies his coins for deposit in the container following shopping at Kroger grocery store at Evergreen Square with his mother as Salvation Army bellringer Jeff Rachell rings the bell at left. Rachell is in his third year as a bellringer for the Salvation Army.
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Caterpillar Inc. Director of Global Validation Mark Craig discusses details of a test run on a D8 with Pam Roberts, engineering supervisor for the new Structural Dynamics Lab in Mossville. The new facility allows engineers to punish their machine designs in the lab before it hits the market using two massive shaker platforms that can induce months and years of wear in a matter of days.
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Megadeth, Machine Head, Suicide Silence and Arcanium performed at the Peoria Civic Center Sunday night.
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Bradley's Andrew Warren shoots against Idaho State during the first half of action at Carver Arena Sunday evening.
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Alexis Smith, 4, doesn't want to get too close to a pair of CPR mannequins held by Proctor Hospital CPR instructor Janet Callahan during a benefit for the family of 2-year-old choking victim Shannon Brush Sunday afternoon. Two free sessions of CPR and first aid training through the American Heart Association were raffled off during the benefit.
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The Contemporary Art Center of Peoria held a silent scarf auction that featured a fashion show Sunday afternoon.
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ICC men and women compete in the NJCAA Div.1 Cross Country National Championships at Newman Golf Course.
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The Knights knock off the top-ranked Sacred Heart-Griffin Cyclones in the Class 5A football quarterfinals.
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A group of Civil War re-enactors gather at W.H. Sommer Park for a winter encampment.
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The Washington Panthers play in Friday's 47-7 Class 5A quarterfinal loss to Joliet Catholic at Joliet Memorial Stadium.
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Kim Knapp is a avid hunter and won't let a little thing like a pregnancy stop her when last year she opened the livingroom window at her parent's home in Edwards and bagged a doe while pregnant with twins.
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The RiverPlex is converted to Peoria's largest indoor garage sale barn for the annual Julep's Closet Sale.
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Wildlife Prairie State Park animal keeper Steve Baldwin harvests meat from the leg of a deer in the facility's animal kitchen.
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Science teachers convention at Peoria Civic Center.
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Illinois National Guardsmen return home to cheering crowds at the Illinois Air Guard base in Bartonville.
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It's the annual Salvation Army Christmas Fund Drive and Tree Lighting at Northwoods Mall.
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The Peoria Rivermen take on the Texas Stars at Carver Arena.
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East Peoria Department of Public Works employee Marvin Ennis reaches for one of the light-covered diamonds on the Festival Wreath while putting up the display on Fondulac Drive Wednesday morning. In the bucket with Ennis is John Lamb, a member of the East Side Center grounds crew. The Festival Wreath has been part of East Peoria's Festival of Lights display since the first festival 25 years ago.
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AMVETS Post 64 remodels third floor for banquet rental.
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The 10th Illinois Volunteer Calvary Volunteer Regiment of Springfield comes to the rescue of the Veterans Day ceremony at Springdale Cemetery that would have been cancelled due to aging veterans unable to organize it, but they stepped in to perform a small ceremony.
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Second grade teacher Barb Sollberger takes advantage of a crips fall day to teach her children about the wonders of nature. Teachers at Armstrong use the natural area in front of the school in a variety of ways to further learning.
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Accident witness Heather Williamson, of Mapleton, holds 8-month-old Amina Pierce as her mother is put into an ambulance Wednesday morning. Mother and daughter were hit by a car while crossing Main Street at Sheridan around 10 a.m.
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Veterans Day parade and ceremony in Peoria.
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Local chefs prepare some of their favorite soups for the YMCA's Soup for the Shelter fundraiser for the homeless at Rhythm Kitchen Tuesday evening.
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Delavan students from all age groups gather in the Delavan school gym as they honor veterans with song, music, and cheers as they recognize the sacrifice of military personnel.
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Army veteran Harry Whelchel, left, and Marine veteran John Weyer, right, lay a stone wall at Wildlife Prairie Park Tuesday morning. The men and their co-workers, all veterans, are in the process of removing old rotted railroad ties around the park and replacing them with stone.
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Washington Presbyterian Church is celebrating its 175th anniversary on Sunday with a coffee hour at 9 a.m. and a special service at 10 a.m. The congregation first gathered on Nov. 16, 1834, in a general store in Washington. The current building is the second it built.
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