Our Director of Innovation and Startups, Andrew Ngui, was given the outstanding opportunity to appear on I've Decided's "The Source" last week.  The Source is a video podcast featuring local leaders and advocates. Andrew and hosts Kim Martin and Kurt P. ...

On August 27th, GPEDC was named Community Partner of the Year by the Turner Center for Entrepreneurship at Bradley University. We are honored and grateful to be recognized as an organization that strives to make a positive impact in the community. P ...

Join us at The Big Table Greater Peoria this October! The Big Table is a day of regional community building through conversations designed to strengthen and connect communities. Through open, thoughtful conversations that focus on how we can strengthen ou ...

A beginning farmer, a BBQ sauce maker, and a food chain transparency technology programmer walk into a grocery store...   Toss in two dozen more people, a mix of food entrepreneurs and resource providers, and you have yourself the Greater Peoria Food I ...

A few weeks ago, Greater Peoria received some great news. U.S. Representative Darin LaHood announced that Illinois Central College was granted $3 million for their Workforce Sustainability Center. Combined with $7 million in local and state funds, the Cen ...