Category Archives: Local News
Peoria Police arrest two females for Tuesday night retail theft
PEORIA Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a pair of females in connection to an attempted theft of a local retail store. Tuesday just after 10:15pm, Peoria Police were called to the "Marshals" in the ...
Dec 04, 2024
How RFK Jr.'s health proposals could affect Illinois
(Capitol News Illinois) - Every new presidential administration comes with policy changes, but the incoming second administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed secretary of Health a...
Dec 04, 2024 A person receives a vaccine. (Kfuhlert, pixabay.com)
'You won't spend a day in jail': Madigan attorney hammers Solis' agreement with feds
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - The day after Christmas 2018, then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis signed an agreement with federal prosecutors, with whom he'd spent the last 2 years working as a secret co...
Dec 04, 2024 The Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago where former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is on trial for bribery, racketeering and extortion in a case partially built on secret recordings made by former Chicago alderman-turned-FBI mole Danny Solis, who wrapped up his time on the witness stand Tuesday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel, inset by Andrew Adams)
Peoria Riverfront Museum lights Christmas tree to start its holiday tradition
PEORIA, Ill. - A shining Christmas tree now illuminates the Peoria Riverfront Museum along Washington Street. The museum on Tuesday night held a tree lighting ceremony to kick off its Christmas in the...
Dec 03, 2024 A 60-foot Norway spruce is illuminated at the Peoria Riverfront Museum. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pritkzer education policy advisor named to head new Department of Early Childhood
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday appointed Teresa Ramos to be the first permanent secretary of the newly-formed Illinois Department of Early Childhood. "I'm eager...
Dec 03, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker announces his intention to form a state department to manage early childhood education and other state services at an October 2023 news conference. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Man indicted for second time for fatal Peoria shooting deaths of girlfriend and neighbor
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been indicted for the second week in a row on murder charges. A Peoria County grand jury indicted 43-year-old Stevie Linwood on two counts of First Degree Murder for th...
Dec 03, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Multiple injuries in Peoria crash Tuesday afternoon
PEORIA, Ill. - Three people were taken to a hospital after a two-vehicle crash with entrapment Tuesday afternoon. Peoria Fire says the crash occurred just after 12:45 P.M. in the area of University an...
Dec 03, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Family displaced after Peoria Heights house fire
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - A family and their dogs have been displaced after a Peoria Heights house fire Tuesday morning. Fire Chief Dan Decker says the call came in at around 7:20 A.M. to the area of Mar...
Dec 03, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Curtis: Respiratory illnesses hitting hard as we head into the holidays
PEORIA, Ill. - It's that time of the year...when we're inside more, spreading colds and viruses around. Dr. Brian Curtis, with OSF HealthCare, tells WMBD's "Greg and Dan", they're seeing a bit of ever...
Dec 03, 2024 robertprzybysz / Depositphotos.com
Madigan attorney accuses Solis of not telling feds 'all the crimes you committed'
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Chicago Ald. Danny Solis spent more than 2 years living a double life as an FBI cooperating witness after agents approached him in 2016, asking him to we...
Dec 03, 2024 Former Chicago Ald. Danny Solis and his attorney, Lisa Noller, walk into Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Dec. 2, 2024, for another day of testimony in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Solis, who spent 2 ½ years as an undercover cooperator for the FBI, began sitting for cross-examination on Monday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
