Taco Bell is testing out the Big Cheez-It Tostada (left) and the Big Cheez-It Crunchwrap Supreme (right). (Taco Bell via CNN Newsource) (CNN) - Taco Bell is joining forces with Cheez-Its for two items that are being tested out on the menu at a single location in California. The first is the Big Cheez-It Tostada, which is made up of a large Cheez-It cracker 16 times the size of a regular one.

Illinois residents voted in more than 100 categories to choose the 2021 Best of the Best winners in Peoria's community choice awards. The Journal Star is following up with a closer look at some of those categories. Ben Bally, general manager of Uncle Bob's Homemade Ice Cream at 409 E. Center St., Eureka, poses for a portrait in the store in this 2015 file photo.

Editor’s note: The following column written by former editor Cheryl Wolfe first appeared in the Woodford County Journal on Dec. 23, 1999. In our last episode of the continuing saga about a trip to Philadelphia my mother, daughter and I took, I left readers sitting on the edge with us in the city’s Italian market.

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Lakeview Park hosted Parks on Tap Thursday night, and everybody in the community was welcome to join for music, games, food and drink. Tap House Restaurant was at the event, serving drinks. PPD (Peoria Park District) on the go, the mobile recreation for kids, and a local band joined in on the fun.

Samantha Sandford, 23, of Farmington had converted a section of the former site of the Second Chance Church at 2200 W. Willow Knolls Drive into a tea room. PEORIA – Economic issues have led to the closure of the Tea Room in the 3300 Event Center complex in North Peoria. “The price of food, it’s tripled,” said Samantha Sandford, who opened the Tea Room in September of 2021.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rice bran has become a sought-after commodity in India as the world’s biggest importer of vegetable oils tries to overcome an edible oil shortage caused by global supply disruptions. A by-product in rice milling, rice bran has been traditionally used for cattle and poultry feed. In recent years, oil mills have started extracting rice oil, which is popular among health-conscious consumers but historically more expensive than rival oils.