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Penicillin Wasn't Just Fleming's Lab Accident: The Mold That Saved Millions Came from a Rotting Cantaloupe

Fleming's 1928 accident opened the antibiotic era, but the strain that mass-produced penicillin came from a moldy melon in Peoria, Illinois.

Medical Daily

He captivated millions on TV. Now Archbishop Fulton Sheen is one step closer to sainthood

Catholics from the Peoria, Illinois, area are eagerly preparing for a long-awaited beatification service of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen

The Independent UK

Illinois Residents Are Watching Food Prices More Closely This Month—and Meat Costs Keep Coming Up

Illinois shoppers keep noticing one thing every time they reach the checkout line—groceries cost more than they did just a few weeks ago. Meat aisles especially grab attention, with beef, chicken, and pork prices pushing weekly budgets into uncomfortable territory for many households. Families across Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, and smaller…

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Noah Beck's Sister, Haley, is Accused of Grooming and Raping Her Student – 'Suspect' Trend Video Resurfaced

Haley Beck, sister of TikTok star Noah Beck, faces investigation over alleged grooming and sexual misconduct with a student. The Peoria Unified School District has moved to terminate her employment.

International Business Times UK

TV preacher approved for beatification after 2019 ceremony was derailed

The archbishop, who was once featured on the cover of Time Magazine, is one step closer to sainthood

The Independent UK

Illinois’ 15 Best Hidden Gem Housing Markets of 2025

Top spots blend strong livability, reasonable housing costs.

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Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow

Amkor has broken ground on a new semiconductor packaging and test campus in Peoria, Arizona, marking a rare domestic expansion in one of the industry’s most critical and capacity-constrained areas.

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Amkor’s Arizona mega-plant could plug the holes in America’s chip ambitions — advanced packaging plant would reduce need to send US-produced chips to foreign shores for packaging and test

Amkor Technology has confirmed it will build a $2 billion advanced packaging and test facility on a 104-acre site in Peoria, Arizona, with construction beginning imminently.

Tom’s Hardware

20 Cheapest Places To Retire in the West in 2025

The most affordable big cities in the West may surprise you.

GOBankingRates

JD Vance urges Arizona crowd to ‘work our rear ends off’ to help Trump win

Republican VP candidate tells supporters in swing state to pull friends to polls because race could go either way

The Guardian - US

U.S. Signs $1.5B in CHIPS Act Agreements With Amkor and SKhynix for Chip Packaging Plants

Under the CHIPS & Science Act, the U.S. government provided tens of billions of dollars in grants and loans to the world's leading maker of chips, such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC, which will significantly expand the country's semiconductor production industry in the coming years. However, most chips are typically…

AnandTech

US to boost chip packaging capacity with CHIPS Act grant — Amkor to receive $600 million for advanced chip packaging facility

Amkor gets $600 in grants and loans to build an advanced packaging facility in Arizona that will support TSMC's fab in the state.

Tom’s Hardware

Tornado Threat Looms Over Five States

Des Moines, Davenport, and Peoria are on high alert, with damaging winds expected to hit speeds of 70 to 90 mph, potentially affecting major cities like Chicago and Milwaukee this afternoon and evening.

International Business Times

Some states’ populations are very much like the US overall – including 5 key states in the 2024 presidential election

Five of the seven states widely expected to be political battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election have populations very much like that of the U.S. overall, in a range of demographic and socioeconomic measures.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Kindred spirits: Columnists reconnect to talk about writing, small-town living and life

I had a business appointment in Peoria, the old hometown, 180 miles down the road, and I thought, why not stop on the way and visit Dave Kindred?

AnandTech

Amkor to Build $2 Billion Chip Packaging Fab in Arizona Primarily for Apple

Amkor, the world's second largest independent outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) service provider, has announced their intention to build a new advanced chip packaging facility in the U.S. Carrying a price tag of around 2 billion dollars, the plant in Arizona will primarily serve to package chips produced by…

Fortune

Meet an early retiree at 46 who turned a $1 house down payment into a mini real-estate empire he sold for over $1 million

"I had this dumbfounded expression on my face for months ... This kid who didn't go to college and worked my way up, could sell two homes and make a half-million profit?"

Chicago Tribune

Illinois man held in attempted arson of planned abortion clinic said he’d ‘finish the job’ if freed, feds say

CHICAGO — The Illinois man accused of crashing his car into a future abortion clinic in downstate Danville while attempting to set it on fire told authorities he intended to destroy the building so it could not be used to provide abortions and would attempt to do so again if…

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Florida Gov. DeSantis to hit Peoria this week — and how he’ll play depends entirely on which party you ask

Organizers of the downstate Lincoln Day Dinner say DeSantis will “speak on his successful Florida Blueprint,” as Republicans “fight the radical Progressive Left’s Marxist agenda here in Illinois.” But Gov. J.B. Pritzker said, “DeSantis’ views are not what we call freedom in Illinois.”

Chicago Sun-Times

New research finds small, mid-size Illinois cities have higher per-capita gun homicide rates than Chicago

Cities such as Champaign, Rockford and Peoria have seen homicide rates per 100,000 residents surge in recent years, close to or surpassing Chicago’s levels.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois Deer Classic: Combining the legacy and the innovations

The Illinois Deer Classic is part of a history of this state’s deer shows that spans more than 30 years; opening day Friday at the Peoria Civic Center added an wild chapter to that history and gave opportunity to sample some of the innovations in the outdoors.

Tribune News Service

Bob Melvin is star-studded Padres' grounding influence

PEORIA, Ariz. — Taking things one day at a time for the entirety of a Major League Baseball season requires a lot of days of doing so.

Tribune News Service

Larry Stone: Mariners are only team not to make World Series. Does that change this year?

PEORIA, Ariz. — I must admit, the task of writing a Mariners column for our season preview section is a little trickier this year.

Tribune News Service

Yu Darvish returns, acknowledges 'concern' regarding preparation

PEORIA, Ariz. — Yu Darvish returned from his time serving as the elder statesman and pitcher for a baseball team that made its country proud. He hugged his teammates, acknowledging to some that he was tired. He showed a few his gold medal.

Tribune News Service

Mariners' Cal Raleigh chases dreams one grueling workout at a time

PEORIA, Ariz. — As large raindrops fell somewhere between a downpour and deluge, soaking the Phoenix valley, the early morning blackness somehow seemed darker in contrast to the handful of streetlights in the largely empty parking lot of the Mariners' spring training complex.

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