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Before He Was a Pro Receiver, A.J. Brown Was Making Money Playing Baseball

During his time at Ole Miss, the now Eagle had a strange agreement with the Padres: He’d make a few thousand dollars here and there … provided he fulfilled one obligation.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 9, 2023

Downstate man charged in setting fire at Planned Parenthood clinic in Peoria

Tyler W. Massengill, 32, of Chillicothe, is accused of setting a fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic Jan. 15, causing more than $1 million in damage. No one was hurt.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 26, 2023

Police investigate Illinois Planned Parenthood fire as arson

Peoria police and fire officials are investigating a fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic as arson, police said Tuesday

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023

Pulse of the Heartland: Peoria yearning for the middle in a nation of angry extremes: ‘It just makes your heart sink’

Some Peoria residents say it feels like politicians are less and less interested in finding the center their city has long represented — and instead are more focused on playing to extremes. “It seems like there is no middle ground out there anymore,” one resident said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 20, 2022

GOP US Senate candidate’s name left off some ballots in rural Illinois county in now-corrected error

CHICAGO — Election officials in a small Illinois county southwest of Peoria printed the wrong name of the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate on several hundred ballots, forcing the officials Wednesday to keep the ballots separate from all others being cast in the Nov. 8 general election.

Chicago Tribune · Oct 14, 2022

This Illinois disc golf tournament has grown into one of the year’s biggest events

It's part tournament, part festival — presenting the largest purse in the history of the sport ($130,000) in 2021.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 11, 2022

Bryce Miller: How Ty France earned singular respect of Manny Machado, baseball

One day in Peoria, Ariz., in the middle of mundane and relentless spring-training drills, Ty France decided to up the ante with one of the most confident and established players in Major League Baseball.

Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2022

Caterpillar to move headquarters to Texas, marking second major corporate departure from Illinois in 6 weeks

Less than six weeks after defense contractor and airplane-maker Boeing announced it would move its global headquarters out of downtown Chicago, leaders of another major corporation are set to leave the region.

Chicago Tribune · Jun 15, 2022

Caterpillar pulls up headquarters stakes, heads for Texas

The manufacturer of construction and mining equipment has been based in Deerfield since 2017 but has long been identified with Peoria.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 14, 2022

Long car ride from Arizona to Oregon for qualifying pays off for Oklahoma Sooner standout Ben Lorenz, who will play in 2022 U.S. Open with his brother as caddie

Ben Lorenz drove with his brother Blake from their hometown in Arizona to Oregon for U.S. Open qualifying.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jun 13, 2022