Category Archives: Local News
Peoria ROE head focused on getting truant students in the classroom
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Regional Office of Education is working to reduce truancy in all of its schools. An investment into more case workers by the Peoria County Board has helped make it pos...
Feb 27, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County)
Trump to implement new tariffs on Illinois' largest trading partners as state faces uncertainty over economic projections
SPRINGFIELD - As the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Director Alexis Sturm warned a House committee that uncertainty about President Donald Trump's economic and administrative policies coul...
Feb 27, 2025 HOUSE REVENUE COMMITTEE: Governor’s Office of Management and Budget Director Alexis Sturm speaks to the House Revenue and Finance Committee in Springfield on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Area contractors ready for Peoria's 30th Home Show this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Hammers were swinging and saws were buzzing Thursday at the Peoria Civic Center, in preparation for Peoria's 30th Home Show. Companies who do home improvement and landscaping projects w...
Feb 27, 2025
Audit finds Illinois' noncitizen health care programs far outstripped original cost estimates
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - A pair of health care programs that benefit noncitizens - one of which is already on Gov. JB Pritzker's budgetary chopping block - far outstripped its original es...
Feb 27, 2025 A crowd of about 100 people gathered in the Illinois Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 26 for a rally urging state lawmakers to continue to support pro-immigrant policies, including Illinois’ programs for non-citizen health care, in addition to opposing the Trump administration’s executive orders on immigrations. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jade Aubrey)
Pritzker says federal funds still being withheld; warns of further spending cuts
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker accused the Trump administration this week of continuing to withhold nearly $1.9 billion from Illinois state agencies, nonprofits and small...
Feb 26, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks with reporters during a news conference at University of Chicago Medicine Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Man arrested at Peoria house on drug and weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A man was arrested early Wednesday morning at a Peoria East Bluff house on weapons and drug charges. Peoria Police says its Special Investigations Division and SWAT executed a search wa...
Feb 26, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Illinois schools continuing DEI initiatives despite federal funding threats
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois State Board of Education is not telling schools to stop any diversity, equity and inclusion lessons or programs, the state's education chief to...
Feb 26, 2025 Illinois Superintendent Tony Sanders participates in a previous Illinois State Board of Education meeting. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria County election head reflects on primary turnout and what's next for consolidated elections
PEORIA, Ill. - The head of the Peoria County Election Commission says Tuesday's primary was a "smooth" day. Executive Director Elizabeth Gannon says turnout for the primary was close to 18%. "Not wher...
Feb 26, 2025 (Julia Bradley & 1470 100.3 WMBD Radio)
Morning Mix ready to kick off Mix 106-9 Cares About Cancer Radiothon
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute has been a part of the Saint Francis campus in Peoria for a year now, but many people still don't know it exists. For the first time on Thursday, Midwest...
Feb 26, 2025
One dead after officer-involved shooting in Bloomington
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - An armed subject was shot to death by Bloomington Police Tuesday afternoon on the city's southeast side. In a statement Tuesday night, Bloomington Police said officers were called ...
Feb 26, 2025 (25 News)
