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Sen. Jones sent spending money to former intern before getting him job feds say was a bribe
CHICAGO. Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Christopher Katz didn't question why he began receiving $300 weekly payments from an executive at Chicago-based red-light camera company SafeSpeed in the summer...
Apr 12, 2025 The federal corruption trial of State Sen. Emil Jones III at Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse, pictured in November, saw testimony from the senator’s former intern and an FBI agent before the jury was dismissed for the weekend Friday afternoon. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Bills addressing cannabis odor in vehicle, safe gun storage pass Senate
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Law enforcement officers would no longer be allowed to search a vehicle or detain a driver who is over age 21 based solely on the smell of burnt cannabis in...
Apr 12, 2025 The Illinois State Capitol is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Man charged with sexually abusing relative
PEORIA, Ill. - A 53-year-old man has been formally charged with criminal sexual assault of a relative, when the relative was 12 and 13 years old. The abuse occurred nearly four years ago and the victi...
Apr 12, 2025 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Third round of McClugage Bridge demolition scheduled
PEORIA, Ill. - A third round of explosives will highlight the continuation of the McClugage Bridge construction project. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) says the next round of explosi...
Apr 12, 2025 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
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...
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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)
