Category Archives: Local News
Prisoner Review Board reform bill clears Senate
SPRINGFIELD - A bill that would reform the Prisoner Review Board passed the Illinois Senate on Thursday, aiming to protect victims and increase transparency about prisoner releases following years of ...
Apr 12, 2025 Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, right, speaks with a Senate staffer a few hours before debating a bill to reform the Prisoner Review Board. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Juvenile in custody after alleged Peoria business burglary
PEORIA, Ill. - A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with an alleged business burglary in Peoria. Peoria police say officers responded to a business alarm in the 3300 block of N. Sterling ...
Apr 12, 2025 Midwest Communications
Denise Moore picked to lead PCCEO
PEORIA, Ill. - A familiar face is set to lead the Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity. On Friday, leaders of the PCCEO announced that Denise Moore will be the agency's next CEO. The org...
Apr 12, 2025 Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity building. (25 News)
FBI mole told Sen. Emil Jones III to suggest 'creative' way to accept $5K lest it 'look goofy'
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois)- By the time FBI agents came knocking at Omar Maani's door on a January morning in 2018, the red-light camera entrepreneur had spent at least the last decade and a half...
Apr 11, 2025 The government’s star witness, red-light camera entrepreneur-turned-FBI mole Omar Maani, finished testimony Thursday in State Sen. Emil Jones III’s federal corruption trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, pictured in October. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams.
Congressmen applaud decision to keep Peoria's Mail Processing and Distribution Center up and running
PEORIA, Ill. - Congressmen Darin LaHood (IL-16) and Eric Sorensen (IL-17) on Friday released a joint statement in response to the United States Postal Service's recent decision that originating mail p...
Apr 11, 2025 tsz01 / Depositphotos.com
Backlash over the idea of a paid Bartonville Fire Department
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Talk about replacing volunteer firefighters with paid employees has sparked an eruption of emotions throughout the Village of Bartonville. For more than a century, the Bartonville ...
Apr 11, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--Mike Sabol)
Senate OKs police hiring reform, Sangamon County recall in response to Sonya Massey's death
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - The Sangamon County Sheriff's Office came under intense scrutiny after an unarmed Black woman was shot and killed by a deputy in her Springfield home in July 2024...
Apr 11, 2025 Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, speaks on the Senate floor on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
ICC board addresses student housing closure
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Last month, Illinois Central College announced that students living on the East Peoria campus would have to find somewhere else to live next semester. On Thursday, the ICC Board of...
Apr 11, 2025 (Illinois Central College)
Pekin Community High School warns seniors about playing a trending game
PEORIA, Ill. - One local high school is warning its seniors about a game they may be planning to play that could have dangerous consequences. In a Facebook post, Pekin Community High School says it ha...
Apr 10, 2025 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'Chilling silence': Waves of Illinois' international university students lose their visas
(Capitol News Illinois) - The federal government has revoked the visas of some international students studying at universities across Illinois, but college administrators are sharing few details, incl...
Apr 10, 2025 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, pictured here on Wednesday, April 9, the Illinois schools where international students have seen their visas revoked by federal authorities. (Lylee Gibbs, Saluki Local Reporting Lab)
