Category Archives: Local News
Feds 'turned over heaven and earth' in Madigan probe but found no real bribes, co-defendant says
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - It was a day of dj vu at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse Tuesday as veteran Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain sat at a defense table listening to opening statements in ...
Oct 23, 2024 Mike McClain, a longtime Statehouse lobbyist and the co-defendant of former House Speaker Michael Madigan in an ongoing corruption trial, is pictured last year at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after being found guilty in a related trial. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
UPDATED: Amended Salvation Army men's shelter plans approved by Peoria City Council
UPDATED 10/23 11:10 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A new men's shelter for Peoria's Salvation Army has been approved by the Peoria City Council. On Tuesday night, Council unanimously approved amended plans for a...
Oct 22, 2024 (City of Peoria/Keach Architechtural Design)
Washington Community High School asking students to keep backpacks at home over safety concerns
WASHINGTON, Ill. - Leaders at Washington Community High School are asking students to not bring their backpacks to school for the rest of the week. 25 News reports administrators are requesting that a...
Oct 22, 2024 (25 News)
Peoria Heights officials discuss new active transportation plan
PEORIA HEIGHTS Ill. - Peoria Heights officials met with the public Tuesday night, to discuss possible changes to the village's active transportation plan. The goal of the transportation plan is to mak...
Oct 22, 2024 (Casey Foreman & 1470 100.3 WMBD Radio)
Peoria organization that helps youth announces new location for safe school
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria based organization that aims to help youth get on the right path to success will have a new place to call home. Elite Community Outreach will occupy the corner of Randolph and ...
Oct 22, 2024 Elite Community Outreach Founder Carl Cannon speaks at a press conference announcing a donation of a former medical building for the organization's new safe school. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bradley Basketball gives fans inside look with new docuseries
PEORIA Ill. - The Bradley Braves men's basketball team is just over a week away from their first exhibition game of the season... For the first time ever, fans have a chance to get an in-depth look at...
Oct 22, 2024 (Casey Foreman & 1470,100.3 WMBD Radio)
Nominations roll in for 2025 Peoria General Election
PEORIA Ill. - Locals have started filing for nominations for several local races ahead of the 2025 General Election for Peoria. The election is in April, but the filing window for nominees started on ...
Oct 22, 2024
Madigan's approach to power at center of opening statements in his corruption trial
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - On a hot Tuesday in July 2017, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan met with then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis at the speaker's law offices in a high rise building...
Oct 22, 2024 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan smiles as he exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Monday after opening statements in his federal corruption trial concluded. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria teenager pleads guilty to weapons and threatening a public official charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager has pleaded guilty to charges involving weapons and threatening a public official. 19-year-old Taiwand Hughes pleaded guilty Monday to one count of Aggravated Discharg...
Oct 21, 2024 Taiwand Hughes Mugshot (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Ground broken on Peoria International Airport air traffic control tower project
PEORIA, Ill. - A "long awaited day" for the Peoria International Airport has arrived. The airport held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday morning for the facility's new air traffic control tower. The cu...
Oct 21, 2024 Employees of the Peoria International Airport take part in the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new air traffic control tower at PIA. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
