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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, APRIL 26 AND THEREAFTER - In this March 26, 2014 photo, Susan Hoffman, executive director of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, poses for a photo in Peoria, Ill. Hoffman, who has 30 years experience in the “orchestra industry," managed symphonies in Michigan and Ohio before coming to Peoria two years ago. (AP Photo/Journal Star, David Zalaznik)
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This May 7, 2013 photo shows Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis addressing in a City Council meeting in Peoria, Ill. Police officers trying to find out who was behind a fake Twitter account set up in the name of Peoria's mayor raided a home Tuesday, April 15, 2014, seizing computers and phones and hauling several people in to be questioned. No arrests were made in connection with the Twitter account. (AP Photo/Journal Star, Ron Johnson)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, Peoria firefighters attack a fire with an aerial truck at the Archer Daniels Midland plant in Peoria, Ill. Peoria, which has a population of 115,000, is in somewhat better shape than other larger Illinois cities when it comes to pension funding levels with about $160 million in unfunded debt, but Mayor Jim Ardis is still calling for changes in police and fire pension benefits going forward. He says legislators handed out generous benefits then left cities to foot the bill. “There is no way anybody can look at these pensions and realistically say they’re (always) going to be funded,” Ardis said.(AP Photo/Journal Star, Adam Gerik,File)
