Category Archives: Local News
'Right to Play' bill that would affect high school athletes advances in House
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - A House committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would give high school student athletes the right to participate in both school-sponsored teams and non-school te...
Mar 13, 2025 Rep. Janet Yang-Rohr, left, and Carmel Catholic High School student Libby Magnone testify before a House committee on legislation that would let high school student athletes compete on both school-sponsored and nonschool teams in the same sport during the same season. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Teenager arrested on Peoria's South Side on weapons charges Tuesday afternoon
PEORIA, Ill. - Two teenagers were taken into custody on Peoria's South Side Tuesday afternoon, one of which on weapons charges. Peoria Police says officers were called at around 4:30 P.M. in the area ...
Mar 12, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Two Peoria-area boys' high school basketball teams to compete for state titles this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Just like the past weekend for the girls' basketball state finals, the Peoria-area will have two chances to win a state championship in the boys' state finals. Both Peoria Manual and Pe...
Mar 12, 2025 (Peoria Manual Facebook)
Illinois Central College planning to end student housing after spring semester
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The future of student housing at Illinois Central College in East Peoria is up in the air. The college's Student Housing LLC is not leasing any housing for the complex after the Sp...
Mar 12, 2025 (Illinois Central College)
Limestone High School sets record in giving to Easterseals Central IL
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - For 49 years, students at Bartonville's Limestone High School have raised money for the kids at Easterseals Central Illinois. Easterseals' Mark Scott tells WMBD's "Greg and Dan Sho...
Mar 12, 2025 (Easterseals Central Illinois)
Pekin approves plans for a new downtown dispensary
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin's City Council has given the green light to plans for a new cannabis dispensary in the historic downtown area. Miggy's Shop LLC requested a special use permit for a dispensary on C...
Mar 12, 2025 The former Pekin Performing Arts Center is expected to be the site of a new cannabis dispensary. (25 News)
Peoria approves $39K to help keep the unhoused off the street
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council unanimously approved giving LULA NFP additional funding to continue a project that's been sheltering homeless people in a motel at Tuesday night's meeting. The n...
Mar 12, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Tremont apartment fire victim identified
UPDATED 3/12 9:48 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The victim who died in a Tremont apartment fire Monday has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 69-year-old Richard Hayden was pronounced dea...
Mar 11, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Grand jury indicts man accused of Valentine's Day robbery at Peoria apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a man for his alleged role in a Valentine's Day armed robbery. 24-year-old Anthony Morris was indicted Tuesday on one count each of Armed Robbery...
Mar 11, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Partisan politics infiltrating non-partisan local Illinois elections
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - It's been just four months since the last election concluded, but another election is on the horizon in Illinois: the April 1 elections for school boards an...
Mar 11, 2025 Lisa Hernandez, a state representative and chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois, speaks to members of her party at a Democratic National Convention delegation breakfast. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
