Category Archives: Local News
Man pleads guilty to federal robbery charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Springfield-area man is pleading guilty to federal charges of robbing mostly banks throughout central Illinois. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Peoria says John Beck, 55, of Mechanicsbu...
Jan 13, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Chicago-area attorney joins election race for Illinois Attorney General
CHICAGO, Ill. - There is now at least one Republican candidate joining the field looking to be elected Illinois' Attorney General in the November election. Steve Kim -- who has run for statewide offic...
Jan 13, 2022 Steve Kim via Facebook
Journal Star to stop Saturday home delivery in March
PEORIA, Ill. - You'll get one less paper copy of the Peoria Journal Star every week if you're a print subscriber starting in two months. The Gannett-owned newspaper Thursday said they will stop home d...
Jan 13, 2022 Peoria Journal Star
Peoria receiving over $1 million for revitalization downtown
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria is receiving $1.2 million in grant money to revitalize a commercial corridor on Western Avenue and boost economic development, according to State Senator Dave Koehler (D-Peoria)...
Jan 13, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Local COVID-19 patient praises doctors and nurses that cared for her
PEORIA, Ill. -- Local hospitals are struggling to keep up with COVID-19 patients. Teri, of Creve Coeur, tells WMBD News, the day she was admitted, there were 400 COVID patients at OSF Saint Francis Me...
Jan 13, 2022 (Courtesy of Teri Herman)
Peoria's new fire station nearing completion
PEORIA, Ill. -- In a few months, construction on Peoria's new Fire Station 4 will wrap up, and it will honor the River City's first black fireman. It's a project three years in the making, and Assista...
Jan 13, 2022 (25 News)
LaHood recognizes late former City Clerk on House floor
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former Peoria City Clerk Mary Haynes is being remembered on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. "Mary was a devoted mother and grandmother, and one of the kindest people...
Jan 12, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Gary Deiters Funeral Home
Blood center helps address potential emergencies requiring blood
PEORIA, Ill. - Blood supplies, no matter where you donate to, are low due in part to COVID-19 and in part due to the winter months. But it's the sort of thing "ImpactLife" -- formerly the Mississippi ...
Jan 12, 2022 ImpactLife
Pritzker: Hospitals are getting temporary help to address COVID-caused short-staffing
CHICAGO, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker has a message for what he says are continually-tired healthcare workers in the state still treating patients while in some cases themselves battling COVID-19. Help...
Jan 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
OSF: 'Influx' of patients because of competing hospital closure
GALESBURG, Ill. - Peoria-based OSF HealthCare says, in a sense, they had a fear the closure of a competing hospital in one of their areas might happen. OSF says Saint Mary Medical Center in Galesburg ...
Jan 12, 2022 Courtesy Rick Heath
