Category Archives: Local News
Peoria Park District planning out Summer Camp on the riverfront for 2025
PEORIA, Ill. - Discussions continue to bring one of central Illinois' biggest music festivals to the Peoria riverfront during Memorial Day weekend. Peoria Park District Executive Director Emily Cahill...
Dec 26, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD -Rick Hirschmann)
Illinois' minimum wage to increase to $15 on Jan. 1, completing 6-year transition
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The minimum wage in Illinois will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the increase was approved in 2019. Beginn...
Dec 26, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker holds a shirt commemorating the movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 after signing the bill on February 20, 2019. The wage hits $15 in 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
New stores planned for Pekin's East Court Village next year
PEKIN, Ill. - Three new retailers are planned for Pekin's East Court Village in 2025. Cullinan Properties announced this week that Ross Dress for Less, Marshalls, and Five Below are scheduled to open ...
Dec 26, 2024 (Cullinan Properties)
Illinois State Trooper struck by moving vehicle, pronounced dead
ILLINOIS - An Illinois State trooper is dead -- after being struck by a moving vehicle Monday night, on I-55 NORTH. It occurred just before 9:45pm -- near Channahon. Trooper Clay Carns was outside of ...
Dec 24, 2024 (Illinois State Police)
Teenager arrested in Peoria for allegedly possessing firearm
PEORIA Ill. - A teenager was arrested over the weekend in Peoria, for possessing a firearm under the legal age. On Saturday, just after 9:00pm, Peoria Police conducted a traffic stop in the 500 block ...
Dec 23, 2024
Mother and daughter die in fiery I-74 crash early Sunday morning near Brimfield
BRIMFIELD, Ill. - A mother and daughter from Ohio died in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 74 near Brimfield early Sunday morning. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 41-year-old Leila Mohama...
Dec 23, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Nearly 300 new Illinois laws take effect in 2025
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year's Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the defining bills of...
Dec 23, 2024 Nearly 300 new laws will take effect in Illinois in 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria gas prices fall slightly, state prices increase
PEORIA, Ill. - The price at the pump in the Peoria area has dipped slightly before the presents are unwrapped. GasBuddy reports an average of $3.14/g for unleaded on Monday, down 2.1 cents in the past...
Dec 23, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATED: One person dead after East Bluff shooting Sunday night
PEORIA, Ill. - The man that died after a shooting in Peoria's East Bluff Sunday night, has been identified. Peoria Police say officers responded to a house just after 7:45 P.M. to a call of a person s...
Dec 23, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Elmwood man arrested after allegedly firing weapon into neighborhood
ELMWOOD, Ill. - An Elmwood man has been arrested after allegedly firing a weapon into a residential neighborhood last month. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says deputies were dispatched to the ar...
Dec 22, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
