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No date has been announced for the restaurant's opening. The original 2021 redevelopment agreement was amended by the council in 2022, but hasn't been changed since then.
Latest Washington News
- Washington will get legal opinion on mayor’s possible conflict of interest with amphitheater developer
- Can the Washington Park Pool be saved? That decision will be made ‘in a year or two’
- Revised Washington amphitheater feasibility study presents a less rosy revenue picture. Here's why
- City staff says infrastructure projects won't suffer if Washington injects $3.5 million into site of proposed amphitheater
- No advisory referendum, but Washington residents will have their say on proposed amphitheater
- Guaranteed maximum price of $41.1 million approved for Tazewell County Justice Center Annex project
Washington City Council
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Steve Stein/WCBUA new mayor and two new members of the eight-member council will be elected. There are no candidates for a council seat that will be open. -
Steve Stein/WCBUThe city council on Monday approved a 30 miles per hour speed limit on Freedom Parkway from McClugage Road east 1,200 feet, and a 40 mph speed limit from that point to North Cummings Lane.
Latest News
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The health department's new Pekin campus at 1800 Broadway Road opened before Thanksgiving. -
In this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois chats with Josh Schnetzler, theater manager at Five Points Washington, to get an inside look at The Wizards of Winter show coming on Dec. 5. -
It's the dream of 1971 Washington Community High School graduate Jim Hengst, who wants to donate $12 million to build the amphitheater in honor of his late wife Dee and name it for her. Dee died in 2021. -
The health department says the victim suffered an onset of symptoms in mid-October and died soon thereafter. -
Washington Community High School students are being told to leave the backpacks at home this week after a “possible student safety risk.” -
The city of Washington and the Washington Fire Department have a new three-year contract. -
The Illinois Department of Transportation is resurfacing the roadway between Legion Road and Zinser Place. -
Superintendent Kyle Freeman told the school board on Tuesday the basketball coaches first pointed out "dead spots" on the wood floor back in July. -
Tazewell County is taking a multi-program approach to rooting out hunger in Central Illinois. -
Gardening is a thousand-year-old practice. For the past 100 of those years, growers in the Peoria area have turned to the Peoria Garden Club to flex their green thumbs.
