Author Archives: Julia Bradley
McClain lawyer calls star witnesses liars as trial nears conclusion
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Jurors hearing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's trial are finally scheduled to begin deliberations Wednesday afternoon more than three months after tes...
Jan 29, 2025 Longtime Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain and former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are pictured leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in 2023 and 2024. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Andrew Adams)
Trump attorney general nominee Pam Bondi clears Senate panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, paving the way for the full Senate to vote ...
Jan 29, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Pam Bondi, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
White House offers 2 million federal employees financial incentives to quit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering financial incentives to 2 million civilian full-time federal workers to quit as part of plans to drastically shrink the si...
Jan 29, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secret Service Police stand guard outside the White House in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2023. REUTERS/Tasos Katopodis/File Photo
Car engulfed in flames in Peoria garage fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to reports of a car on fire in a garage, attached to an apartment building Tuesday afternoon. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Waldron says crews arrived to W. Sh...
Jan 29, 2025 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Thousands of musicians headed to IMEC in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Music teachers and students from around the state return to Peoria this week. Illinois Music Education Association's Darcy Nendza says thousands of participants will be in area restaura...
Jan 28, 2025 (Illinois Music Education Association Facebook)
US Senate votes to confirm Trump nominee to head Transportation Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate voted 77 to 22 on Tuesday to confirm former U.S. Representative Sean Duffy to head the U.S. Transportation Department. Duffy, who was nominated by President Donal...
Jan 28, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Sean Duffy, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be transportation secretary, testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Trump administration fires team of lawyers who prosecuted him, official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration on Monday fired more than a dozen Justice Department lawyers who brought two criminal cases against him, an official said, as the Republic...
Jan 28, 2025 FILE PHOTO: The Department of Justice (DOJ) logo is pictured on a wall after a news conference to discuss alleged fraud by Russian Diplomats in New York December 5, 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File photo
UPDATE: Non-profits, small businesses sue over Trump's freeze on grants, loans
UPDATED 12:44 P.M. (Reuters) -Advocacy groups representing non-profits and small businesses filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration's sweeping directive to temporarily freeze f...
Jan 28, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One before arriving at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., January 27, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Trump takes aim at DEI, COVID expulsions and transgender troops
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders on Monday to remove diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from the military, reinstate thousands of troops who wer...
Jan 28, 2025 FILE PHOTO: President Donald Trump reviews the troops in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., during his Inauguration ceremony on Monday, January 20, 2025. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS
Man arrested for residential burglary
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police were called early Monday morning to N. Homestead on reports of a man with a flashlight inside a vacant home. When officers arrived around 2:45 a.m., they found 33-year-old...
Jan 28, 2025 (Peoria County Jail)
