JJ Bullock
News Reporter at Peoria Journal Star
Reporter for the Peoria Journal Star. EIU and UIS PAR graduate
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pjstar.com | JJ Bullock
Peoria will spend roughly $41,000 on the long-running career development program. Annual funding for Peoria's AmeriCorps program is roughly $425,000 a year. In a resounding swell of support, the Peoria City Council moved Tuesday night to spend roughly $41,000 of city tax-increment financing dollars to keep Peoria's AmeriCorps program alive through August.
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yahoo.com | JJ Bullock
In a resounding swell of support, the Peoria City Council moved Tuesday night to spend roughly $41,000 of city tax-increment financing dollars to keep Peoria's AmeriCorps program alive through August. The council voted unanimously to spend the TIF dollars on the career development program primarily focused on green service initiatives in Peoria.
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pjstar.com | JJ Bullock
Councilmembers are levying accusations that political gamesmanship is at play. Peoria will keep a 1% grocery tax in place after a motion to reconsider failed. There was no official debate about Peoria's freshly passed grocery tax on Tuesday night, but there were more accusations of political gamesmanship lobbed around the horseshoe as a motion to reconsider the tax failed to gain traction. Peoria's 1% grocery tax, which was passed last month to replace the 1% state grocery tax that will end on Jan.
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pjstar.com | JJ Bullock
A Peoria man was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2023 killing of a 14-year-old boy during a robbery gone wrong. Tramier Pate, 24, was found guilty Tuesday of killing 14-year-old Omarius Gates on North Molleck Drive in June 2023. Pate's sentencing has been scheduled for July 9. Gates was killed while walking to a store with a large group of people, including Pate, following a basketball game at the Woodland's Apartment Complex.
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pjstar.com | JJ Bullock
Peoria councilman Andre Allen faced some challenges after redistricting occurred in 2021. Allen won his district by 121 votes against Jamie Messmore, a prominent business owner in Peoria. Messmore said another run for office is not "out of the question."The Peoria mayor said the current makeup of City Council is a sign that voters in Peoria have embraced diversity.
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