A few hours before the media descended on Peoria police headquarters, where Jerry Mitchell was named the department’s newest chief of police , the only man arrested in the unjustified raid of m...
Sgt. David Cook sat behind the wheel of his Chevy Tahoe, reading or filing a police report on the SUV’s laptop on Thursday night. To his left, the spires of St. Mary’s Cathedral jutted upward...
> Lt. Scott Cook, PPD. The front yard of the home at 719 West Russell is the scene of a grim scavenger hunt. A dozen or so cops are walking through the grass, sweeping their feet back and fo...
> A young man cries after a 17-year-old was shot outside the Rainbow > PUSH headquarters on June 27. The Rev. Jesse Jackson drove one of > the victim’s friends to t...
It’s been a crazy week after what has seemed like a particularly chaotic stretch of months here in the River City , which has had the unfortunate result of falling behind here over the past few...
Ke’ston Moore is wiggling a rip stick down the sidewalk in front of his apartment in the Harrison Homes. The device, which can be described as a skateboard with a hinge in the middle, is leavin...
Not far from the traffic light-illuminated intersection of Prospect and McClure, two women are standing on the edge of the sidewalk leading to one of their homes. A cop car is idling in front of ...
The house at 813 S. Greenlawn is a curiosity. It has been sealed from its residents with crime scene tape. Cops are in and out of the home collecting evidence Saturday afternoon, their idling eng...
Peoria was not kind to Zachary Benefield. The 18-year-old from Creve Coeur will never regain full feeling in his right side, his friend and former roommate, Tiffany Hartman, says, after what was ...
Across an alley littered with small, neon green plastic triangles, a man in a Chicago Bears hat is eating what looks like jambalaya out of a bowl. A few feet in front of him crime scene tape is f...
> All watermarked photos courtesy Kevin Mileur. No body is found. But today brings with it one of those events that draws spectators, speculation, know-it-alls and know-nothings. For five ...
The street lights are nearly the same peach hue as the sky above them as the sun sets on the Woodlands, an apartment complex on the city’s West Bluff. I am late to this one. I had a hunch to ...
> Mayor Jim Ardis at tonight’s meeting. Photo courtesy of Jason > Howell . The Peoria City Council already had at least one fairly contentious issue to discuss tonight – the at...
The following is my email interview with Peoria police chief Steve Settingsgaard. State’s Attorney Jerry Brady also spoke with me for today’s VICE story, which is why you’re probably here. ...
There is no crosstown beef, thick like crosstown traffic , tonight in the North End. Baseball players from Manual and Central – rival schools in rival neighborhoods – stand next to each other...
Robert Clements has no idea who Lil JoJo is, but the slain Chicago rapper was memorialized on the side of Clements’ East Bluff home recently. It takes Clements a few minutes to answer the door...
Jake Elliott, the only person charged with a crime as a result of the Peoria mayor Twitter debacle , is asking for help in raising money for an attorney. He’s told me he’d like to secure...
For more than a few people in this town, life is defined by where you live. The Rev. Russell Richardson calls it down here and up there, a delineation of the different areas of Peoria based as mu...
A young man with short dreadlocks is pacing back and forth in front of South End Grocery, a convenient store in a well-worn shopping plaza at the intersection of West Lincoln and South Western av...
We didn’t learn much today from Chief of Police Steve Settingsgaard and State’s Attorney Jerry Brady that wasn’t already known about last week’s Twitter raid. I’ll provide you with a fe...