Category Archives: Local News
Investigation underway after robbery of game console in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating an incident where a potential sale allegedly turned into a robbery. Police say officers responded to the area of Griswold and Proctor just before 9:00 P....
Aug 07, 2025
Ignite Peoria bringing the arts in focus this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Ignite Peoria returns to the Peoria Civic Center this weekend. Saturday's event, presented by ArtsPartners of Central Illinois and now in its 11th year, is for people of all ages who ar...
Aug 07, 2025 Ignite Peoria is being held Saturday, August 9th at the Peoria Civic Center. (ArtsPartners of Central Illinois Facebook).
Chillicothe man ordered detained after child pornography arrest
PEORIA, Ill. - A man accused of uploading child pornography online has been ordered to stay in the Peoria County Jail. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 27-year-old Kewan Hudson was ord...
Aug 06, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
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)
