Local News in Creve Coeur, Illinois

Grant Helps Creve Coeur Get Kids to School Safely
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:02:44 -0800

CREVE COEUR--A state grant, totaling more than $250,000, is helping the district promote wellness before and after school.

Creve Coeur officials, residents hope streetscape project attracts business
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:27:38 -0800

Harley Grove and his dog, Weiner (pronounced Veener), pause Monday on Main Street outside his Creve Coeur taxidermy shop on one of a set of new benches.

Creve Coeur School Receives Funding
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:54:55 -0800

PEORIA- Creve Coeur's LaSalle Elementary School gets 200,000 dollars

Creve Coeur to Receive Funding for Crosswalk Upgrades
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:36:56 -0800

PEORIA, Ill. -- State Sen. Dave Koehler (D-Peoria) announced Thursday that Creve Coeur would be among the locations receiving federal funding as part of the Safe Route to School program.

Creve Coeur hopes streetscape project attracts business
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:43:40 -0800

For the past 50 years, Harley Grove has given new life to otherwise dead animals.   Dozens of trophy fish, fox, deer, snakes, waterfowl, even a moose, decorate the inside of Grove's taxidermy shop along Main Street.   Much like Grove himself, he hopes the street and sidewalk improvements that were put in last year, including the new ornamental lighting that finished going up just last month ...

Park district eyes reserve status for Independence Park
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:38:15 -0800

For many years prior to the late 1970s, massive Caterpillar tractors rolled through the old Caterpillar test site off Illinois Route 29 in unincorporated Creve Coeur. The soil there was shuffled from place to place as the earth movers were put through their paces. The land was barren of foliage in many areas until Caterpillar deeded the property to the Forest Park Foundation in the late 1970s ...

Brad Bennett will lead Robein School District
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:46:37 -0800

The principal at LaSalle Elementary School will become the new head of the Robein School District in East Peoria on July 1.

Investigators will not cite Monsanto in Illinois electrocution deaths
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:20:56 -0800

A federal investigation into an accident that killed two teenage corn detasselers in an Illinois farm field concluded that the girls' employers, including Monsanto Co., could not be faulted.

Music and Arts Calendar
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:54:02 -0800

"Titanic: The Musical," 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8-11; 2 p.m. Feb. 5 and 12, Peoria Players Theatre, 4300 N. University. Tickets: $18/adults; $12/18 and under. Special rate of $12 on Feb. 8. Call 688-4473.

Project Linus has sewn blankets for needy children for nearly 7 years
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:46:47 -0800

Mori Swanson of Pekin, left, Jean Benninger of Creve Coeur, center, and Toni Bateman of Princeville join other ladies from Project Linus at Jones Sewing Machine Company in Peoria Heights Wednesday to make blankets to comfort seriously ill children.