Category Archives: Local News
First look: 2025 Illinois State Fair butter cow unveiled
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - State officials ushered in the start of the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday with the annual unveiling of the butter cow. The sculpture is made of 800 pound...
Aug 06, 2025 Gov JB Pritzker and wife MK pose for a photo with the 2025 butter cow. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
11th member of alleged violent Peoria street gang indicted, charged with murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A 22-year-old has been added to the list of people charged for their alleged role in a violent Peoria street gang. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says Nasaan Booker was ind...
Aug 06, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man found deceased in East Peoria shopping center parking lot
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A 72-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle in an East Peoria shopping center parking lot Wednesday morning. East Peoria Police says officers responded just after 10:15 A.M. to t...
Aug 06, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Pekin woman sentenced after guilty plea in murder-for-hire plot
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin woman accused of attempting to hire someone to murder her husband has been sentenced to prison. Court documents show that 48-year-old Allison Salinas has been sentenced to 16 yea...
Aug 06, 2025 Tazewell County Courthouse (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Money put forward to fund repairs for Riverview Plaza building
PEORIA, Ill. - Work can now move forward to repair the Riverview Plaza building in downtown Peoria. City Manager Patrick Urich says MJ Illinois's owner has placed $500,000 in an escrow account. The mo...
Aug 06, 2025 A moving truck is seen outside the Riverview Plaza building on March 11th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump-led Texas redistricting gambit ignites national arms race to control Congress
(Reuters) -The escalating political fight over the Texas congressional map is spreading across other states across the country, triggering an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting arms race with the ...
Aug 06, 2025 Illinois Governor JB Pritzker attends a news conference held by Texas Democratic lawmakers after leaving the state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw Texas' 38 congressional districts, in Aurora, Illinois, U.S. August 5, 2025. REUTERS/Tom Krawczyk
UPDATE: 41-year-old male identified as victim in fatal officer-involved shooting in Peoria's East Bluff
UPDATED 4:35 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The identity of the victim in a fatal officer involved shooting Tuesday in Peoria's East Bluff has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy...
Aug 06, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Two central Illinois small businesses receive state honor
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria-area small businesses have joined a club of being some of the best in the state of Illinois. Tres Rojas Winery of Washington and Sarah Beth's Homemade Dips of Hanna City rece...
Aug 05, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man indicted for role in mass shooting turned fatal in South Peoria in 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - The man accused in a fatal shooting two years ago in South Peoria has been indicted by a grand jury. 22-year-old Jyvonnie Williams was indicted on Tuesday of one count of First Degree M...
Aug 05, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Longtime ComEd lobbyist gets 1 year in prison for role in Madigan bribery scheme
Article Summary Jay Doherty, a longtime lobbyist and consultant for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, has been sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a bribery scheme aimed at former Illino...
Aug 05, 2025 Former Commonwealth Edison lobbyist and City Club of Chicago director Jay Doherty leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Aug. 5, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
