WEST PEORIA, Ill. – Work is now underway to build a new city hall for West Peoria.
City leaders held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday for the new building. It will be located at the former Busey Bank location on Rohmann and Sterling.
The building is expected to be completed by March of 2025, with a partial completion planned for the end of November of 2024 for the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
The project is expected to cost around $5 million, with Mayor James Dillon saying the city has been preparing for years for the cost.
“There will be no loan on the building,” Dillon said. “The councils over the years have saved enough money that we will be able to pay cash for the new city hall.”
The new city hall will be for more than just city business. Dillon says there’s plans for a wall in front of the building that honors veterans from West Peoria. He says a walkway in the building will also feature art displays from local schools.
Dillon says there’s also going to be a community room in the building where groups can meet.
“If a senior group wants to meet, or the garden club, the residence association, they have a Neighborhood Watch group that’s very big here in West Peoria. And so the room will be available, it’s designed that way,” Dillon said.
Dillon says the building will be built to last in the long-term, with solar energy and geothermal heating and cooling.
He says for as excited as he is to start work on the new building, he says he’s just as excited that a bank will take over the old city hall when West Peoria moves out.
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