PeoriaNEXT Innovation Center, the organization that brought you Firefly Energy, has incubated another start-up company that can’t start up without taxpayer-supplied venture capital. It’s called Intellihot, and fortunately for Peoria taxpayers, it’s getting its combined $1,015,000 in direct lending and commercial loan guarantees from the taxpayers of Galesburg.

The Galesburg City Council unanimously approved [...]