Darin LaHood was a great candidate for Peoria County State’s attorney. He’s a former federal prosecutor for God’s sake. He shares the name of one of the most popular politicians in the area.
So it wasn’t just that Kevin Lyons is a bad public servant. By any standard that exists he is. He’s arrogant. He’s dismissive [...]

Per the Journal Star and the Peoria Times-Observer, we have learned that five of the six people arrested in a drug bust Wednesday in the East Bluff were allowed to leave jail after the Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office issued notices to appear.
My two cents: Let that sink in for a moment folks. The elected [...]

It wasn’t all that long ago that Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin Lyons proudly proclaimed that he would never solicit endorsements from police officers, because he refused to be in anyone’s pocket.
At the time, I considered this a case of making a virtue out of necessity, because I doubted there were many active police officers [...]

I don’t care who you are rooting for in the Peoria County State’s Attorney race, THIS is funny:
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Take a look at the video from HOINews. Then come back here.
Done? Good.
For those who didn’t look, I’ll recap. It was taken at a candidates forum. Darin LaHood, a candidate for Peoria County State’s attorney, says that if he is elected, he would diversity the office. He noted that while 70 percent of people prosecuted [...]

Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin Lyons is going to investigate whether or not State Rep. Aaron Schock broke any laws when he backdated tax-shelter documents for his father eight years ago.
Setting side whether or not Schock should* be charged with a crime, let’s look at the potential winners and losers here.
If Lyons charges Schock with [...]

Monterius Hinkle on Tuesday pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault for a Jan. 16 attack on a 16-year-old girl. He could face 6-30 years in prison. Hinkle also faces charges for Aug. 4, 2007, incident involving a 13-year-old girl June 28, 2007, incident with a 12-year-old girl. These two cases are [...]

Journal Star columnist Pam Adams is a bit of a race baiter. She can look at just about any issue, and describe it as an example of racism. This is especially true when the subject of Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis.
In today’s column, Adams looks over minutes from the September meeting of the Peoria Race Relations [...]

The Peoria Association Of Pastors For Community & Spiritual Renewal says:
… In light of these issues and others we feel that it is best to pursue new leadership within the Peoria County States Attorney’s Office and after numerous meetings with Darin LaHood in which he voluntarily laid out a plan, we are pleased and [...]

I’m not aware of any local coverage of this, which I found in the Chicago Tribune:
Aaron Schock, a Republican state lawmaker making a strong bid for an open U.S. House seat in central Illinois, once notarized documents with false dates while helping his parents set up tax shelters, his own father testified in federal court.
The [...]