PEORIA JOURNAL STAR | DEC. 20, 2018
A Downtown facility will join a network of similar research-oriented developments across the state engineering solutions to a wide variety of problems facing underserved populations — if a grant from the state materializes. The Peoria Innovation Hub would be part of the Illinois Innovation Network, an initiative under the University of Illinois System that has already announced plans for similar hubs in Chicago, Champaign-Urbana, Springfield and DeKalb.