Description: Casual Italian dining with carry out and delivery.
Specials: All locations will be offering their daily specials. On Monday and Tuesday, all you can eat unfilled pasta, with your choice of sauce, dine-in only, $5.99; toppings available at an additional cost.
On Wednesday, chicken parmesan dinner, $8.79. On Thursday, lasagna, $6.75. On Friday, cod served with your choice of Italian vegetables, linguini noodles and choice of sauce, $10.99 for two pieces and $7.49 for one piece. On Saturday, chicken cacciatore, $7.69. On Sunday, pasta primavera, $7.99, add chicken or seafood for an additional $3.29 or Italian sausage for an additional $1.99.
Locations: North Peoria, 8517 N. Knoxville Ave., Peoria, 691-2525; Rockwood/Sterling, 4711 N. Rockwood Road, Peoria, 688-6565; Main Street, 1301 W. Main St., Peoria, 674-4923; East Peoria, 2320 E. Washington St., East Peoria, 699-6200. Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday-Saturday.
Ben Pollard/1470-100.3 WMBD
PEORIA, Ill. The first-ever “Go Local” event Saturday in Junction City promoted local business and emphasized the importance of shopping small and supporting local.
The event hosted nine different speakers, including local councilmen and local business owners, among others.
The event was opened by Brittany Duffield, co-owner of MMC Brokerage.
Duffield has worked at Junction City for fifteen years and said she does everything she can to support area businesses. She urged the people of Peoria to do the same and explained why the “Go Local” campaign was developed.
“‘Go Local’ was created to encourage people to spend locally, to help build awareness and drive traffic to these locally owned establishments in hopes that we can help support and strengthen the ones fortunate enough to survive,” said Duffield.
The Big Table / Zoom/Facebook Live
Emphasizing diversity, equity and inclusion and educating the workforce remain among the Greater Peoria area’s key needs, according to a summary of this year’s virtual Big Table discussions presented Thursday.
During a Zoom media conference discussing the findings, Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Joshua Gunn said more work needs to be done to develop and recruit a workforce that is representative of the community. He said greater diversity and inclusion is required to unlock paths to improvement in the other focus areas.
“It will be a key component to every aspect that we’re talking about,” said Gunn. “Without an equitable lens to the work that we do around workforce and education or quality of life and certainly entrepreneurship and innovation, we’re not going to be as effective as we need to be.”