Category Archives: Local News
New tools for investigating child exploitation; webinars for parents start Thursday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Attorney General says there is a new way he can increase focus on online child exploitation. Kwame Raoul says there will be a mobile forensic facility that will better...
Oct 4, 2021
OSF, Kindred Healthcare approved to jointly own Greater Peoria Specialty Hospital; renovations to begin
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria-based OSF HealthCare is in the midst of expanding its footprint in the city again. OSF and Kentucky-based Kindred Healthcare say the two entities have received regulatory approva...
Oct 4, 2021 OSH HealthCare/Kindred Healthcare
Illinois American Water gives grants to local fire departments
BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A number of Central Illinois fire departments are receiving shares of Illinois American Water's 2021 Firefighter Grant Program, totaling $92,000. Local departments sharing the gran...
Oct 4, 2021
Lindsey Stirling, Harlem Globetrotters coming to Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - Two more big events are coming to the Peoria Civic Center in the coming months. The Civic Center announced Monday that singer and violinist Lindsey Stirling will bring a Christmas-theme...
Oct 4, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Breast cancer survivors celebrated during "More Than Pink" Walk
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - It was a sea of pink and and a celebration of sisterhood at Peoria's Metro Centre for Susan G. Komen's "More Than Pink" walk. Breast cancer survivors came together in person...
Oct 3, 2021 25 News
Peoria man's body recovered from Illinois River
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Crews from Fon du Lac Park District Police recovered a Peoria man's body from the Illinois River. The victim is only identified as 31-years-old. The identity and more information a...
Oct 3, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Keeping lines of communication open during an emergency
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - (25 News) - Central Illinois amateur radio operators held a practice session to demonstrate how to keep up communication when disaster strikes. Peoria County's Amateur Radio Emerge...
Oct 3, 2021 25 News
Two injured in rollover crash in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters and emergency medical personnel were called just after 1:30 a.m. Saturday to the 2700 block of W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive for a single-vehicle accident wit...
Oct 2, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
ISP trooper shot and killed on Chicago expressway
CHICAGO -- An Illinois State Police trooper has died after being shot Friday afternoon on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Chicago's South Side. ISP Police Director Brandan Kelly said 36-year-old Trooper Ge...
Oct 2, 2021 (Illinois State Police)
Peoria Civic Center COVID-19 testing site will now also have vaccines
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - You can now get a COVID-19 vaccine at the same downtown Peoria location you can also get a COVID-19 test. The Illinois Department of Public Health says the Peoria Civic Center park...
Oct 1, 2021 Midwest Communications
