Author Archives: TJ Carson
New behavioral hospital coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Healthcare has broken ground on a new behavioral health hospital. The provider and US HealthVest put shovels in the ground Thursday for Meadowview Behavioral Hospital on Wood Sage R...
May 15, 2025 (OSF Healthcare)
Speaker removes Democratic Rep. Fred Crespo from committee chairmanship for 'not communicating'
SPRINGFIELD - House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch made the extraordinary move of removing an appropriations committee chair on Wednesday with two weeks left in the legislative session and a tightening...
May 15, 2025 State Rep. Fred Crespo, D-Hoffman Estates, is pictured on the Illinois House floor in May 2024 after voting against the state budget for the current fiscal year. House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch stripped him of his committee leadership role and banned him from attending Democratic caucus hearings this week. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
US Supreme Court grapples with Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday over Donald Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thous...
May 15, 2025 Olga Urbina carries baby Ares Webster as demonstrators rally on the day the Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments over U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Peace breakthrough unlikely as Putin declines to meet Zelenskiy in Turkey
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) -Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace ta...
May 15, 2025 Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, May 15, 2025. Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS
Peoria woman accused in death of toddler son ordered held until trial
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman will remain in jail for what prosecutors say was a "violent, brutal, and continuous attack" on her toddler twins, reportedly leading to the death of one of them. Circuit ...
May 15, 2025 Kaleeyah Sprinkle (right) sits next to her public defender at a detention hearing on May 15th, 2025. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Governor's office cuts revenue projection by $500M in latest downward estimate
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker's office is now projecting state revenues to come in about a half-billion dollars below the baseline projections assumed during his Februar...
May 14, 2025 Sen. Elgie Sims, D-Chicago, speaks to Capitol News Illinois about the status of state budget negotiations. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Israel intensifies Gaza bombardment, kills 80 people, as Trump visits Gulf
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the bombardment as U.S. President ...
May 14, 2025 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
US health chief Kennedy defends mass firings, measles response to lawmakers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended billions of dollars in cuts and thousands of firings at his department, as well as his response to a fast-growing measles outbreak, on Wednesday du...
May 14, 2025 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
TIF funding to keep PeoriaCorps program running through summer
PEORIA, Ill. - The city of Peoria will continue to fund a workforce development program whose funding future is uncertain. The council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to approve more than $41,000 i...
May 14, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Consumer advocates tell regulators to slash rate hike requests from Ameren, Nicor
(Capitol News Illinois) - Natural gas customers in the Chicago suburbs and downstate Illinois are likely to see an increase in their monthly bills next year, but it's up to state regulators to decide ...
May 14, 2025 The Michael A. Bilandic Building in downtown Chicago, shown in May 2024, houses the offices of the Illinois Commerce Commission. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
