Author Archives: TJ Carson
Saying Trump has 'suffocated the soul' of his party, former GOP Rep. Kinzinger endorses Harris at DNC
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger did something Thursday night that might have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. He stood on the stage of the D...
Aug 23, 2024 Former U.S. Rep Adam Kinzinger addresses the Democratic National Convention. The vocal critic of Donald Trump has been a leading member of “Republicans for Harris.” (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Fed's Powell says 'time has come' to cut rates
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday offered an explicit endorsement of an imminent policy easing, saying further cooling in the job market would be unwelcome...
Aug 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell heads into the opening dinner at the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Saphir/File Photo
Enrollment up at Illinois Central College
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - There's more Cougars in central Illinois this fall. Illinois Central College on Thursday reported a 5.1% increase in enrollment for the fall 2024 semester, compared to fall 2023. T...
Aug 22, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Illinois Democrats look to invest resources in swing states
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - On the final day of the Democratic National Convention, Illinois party leaders were preparing Thursday to hear Vice President Kamala Harris' acceptance speech a...
Aug 22, 2024 Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democratic governor from a red state, speaks to the Illinois delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Pritzker, Dems push to widen abortion messaging beyond 'social issues' silo
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker used part of his eight-minute primetime speech at the Democratic National Convention this week to push his own party to shift its messaging on ...
Aug 22, 2024 Planned Parenthood Action Fund CEO Alexis McGill Johnson (second from left) speaks at an event put on by Think Big America, a progressive political action organization launched by Gov. JB Pritzker (center) last year. The panel also included Kelly Hall of The Fairness Project (left), Mini Timmaraju of Reproductive Freedom for All and Sarah Garza Resnick of Personal PAC (right). (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Two men arrested in East Peoria on residential burglary charges
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Two men were arrested on residential burglary charges after allegedly breaking into an East Peoria home early Wednesday morning. Police say officers were called just after 2:00 A.M...
Aug 22, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
"Unknown" Civil Rights activist to get spotlight at Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. - A highly influential, but mostly unknown, player in the Civil Rights movement is getting a spotlight shined on him in Peoria. The Dirksen Congressional Center will be hosting a celebrat...
Aug 22, 2024 (Dirksen Congressional Center)
Mediators meet in Cairo in effort to resolve gaps on Gaza truce proposal
CAIRO (Reuters) - U.S. and Israeli delegations started a new round of meetings in Cairo on Thursday aimed at resolving differences over a truce proposal to end more than 10 months of war between Israe...
Aug 22, 2024 Smoke rises from an explosion in Gaza, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, near the Israel-Gaza border as seen from Israel, August 21, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
DNC brings thousands of pro-Palestine protestors to Chicago's streets
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Protestors in Chicago this week have shut down streets, broken through security fencing, clashed with police and interrupted events associated with the Democrat...
Aug 21, 2024 A masked protestor holds up a green smoke bomb during a protest march on Monday near the site of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Fed steaming toward September rate cut, minutes from meeting show
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve appears to be very much on track for an interest rate cut in September after a "vast majority" of officials said such an action was likely, according to the ...
Aug 21, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A jogger runs past the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, U.S., August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo
