Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Pritzker vetoes bill that would have required warehouse workers to know their quotas
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois)- Gov. JB Pritzker issued a rare veto Friday of a bill that would require warehouse workers in Illinois to know quotas they must meet at their jobs. While signing 16...
Mar 25, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a Rockford stop on his "Standing Up for Illinois” tour on Friday, March 21, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Judge in deportations case says Trump administration lawyers were 'disrespectful'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a 1798 law said at a hearing on Friday that go...
Mar 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Family members of Venezuelan Wild Chirinos, 28, who is held in a high-security prison in El Salvador after being deported from the U.S., hold signs and pictures of him, in Valencia, Venezuela March 20, 2025. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa/File Photo
Heathrow resumes operations as global airlines scramble after shutdown
LONDON (Reuters) - London's Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday, a day after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe's busiest airport, causing global travel chaos. Some f...
Mar 22, 2025 People walk at Terminal 5 of the Heathrow International Airport, a day after a fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out the power at the airport, near London, Britain, March 22, 2025. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes
Demolition explosions will shut down the McClugage Bridge Thursday
PEORIA, Ill. - IDOT has announced that the first of six scheduled demolition explosion events on the McClugage Bridge will take place on Thursday of next week. Beginning around 10 a.m. and continuing ...
Mar 22, 2025 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
Residents displaced by Peoria fire Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to a residential fire around noon-time Friday on N. Renwood Avenue. Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun says crews found heavy smoke and fire coming from the...
Mar 22, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
New roadwork set to begin Monday in Peoria and Peoria County
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Beginning Monday, in Peoria County just west of Bartonville, the Pfeiffer Road Bridge will close for a rehabilitation project. The work which continues through July includes repl...
Mar 22, 2025 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond, File
George Foreman, heavyweight champ and purveyor of grills, dies at 76
(Reuters) - American George Foreman, one of the great second acts in sports, who reclaimed the heavyweight boxing title at age 45 and became a celebrated product pitchman, died on Friday at age 76. "W...
Mar 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Former heavyweight champion George Foreman gestures before the heavyweight title unification boxing match between Ukrainian IBF and WBO titleholder Vladimir Klitschko against British WBA champion David Haye in Hamburg July 2, 2011. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File photo
Elon Musk holds Pentagon meeting, wants leakers prosecuted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk held a meeting for more than an hour at the Pentagon on Friday morning as the close ally of President Donald Trump called for the prosecutions of any Pentag...
Mar 21, 2025 Elon Musk arrives for a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025 in this screengrab obtained from a video. REUTERS/Phillip Stewart
Trump signs order directing agencies to grant officials access to records
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the heads of government agencies to grant federal officials access to unclassified agency records, data and systems to s...
Mar 21, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump tours the installations as he attends a board meeting for the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Pritzker's community college initiative stalls in House committee
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois)- One of Gov. JB Pritzker's top legislative initiatives stalled in the General Assembly this week when the chair of the House Higher Education Committee refused to c...
Mar 21, 2025 Legislation that would allow community colleges to offer four-year bachelor’s degree programs has hit a roadblock in the General Assembly. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
