Category Archives: Local News
Gas Prices on the rise in Peoria
PEORIA Ill. - Prices at the pump, continue to rise in the Peoria area. Average gasoline prices in Peoria have risen 4.0 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.38 today, according to GasBuddy....
Oct 14, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
Fire damages home in Peoria Heights
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Smoking materials is listed as the cause of a fire at a Peoria Heights residence. Firefighters were dispatched to the house in the 5000 block of N. Best Street at 6:18 a.m. Satu...
Oct 12, 2024 Midwest Communications
10-year-old shooting victim remembered
PEORIA, Ill. - Family, classmates, teachers, mentors, and the community gathered to remember young Torres Lamar Johnson. The ten-year-old boy was fatally shot Sept. 29 inside of Cityscape Apartments o...
Oct 12, 2024 Photo: 25 News
Illinois State University purchasing building from Country Financial
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Illinois State University has agreed to spend $17.5 million purchasing the old General Electric Road building in Bloomington from insurance company Country Financial. 25 News repor...
Oct 12, 2024 Photo: 25 News
Jury selection in Madigan trial stretches into second week
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - The jury that will determine the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is nearly complete after three slow days of jury selection this week. But in ad...
Oct 12, 2024 Former Democratic state House Speaker Michael Madigan is pictured leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in January. Jury selection for his federal corruption trial will continue next week. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Wildlife Prairie Park starts scary weekend festivities
PEORIA Ill. - From here on out, every weekend in October at the "Wildlife Prairie Park" will be a scary one... This weekend is the first, for the park's annual "Scary Festivities" - featuring haunted ...
Oct 11, 2024 (Wildlife Prairie Park)
Election judges training for Nov. 5th and helping early voters
PEORIA Ill. - Peoria County election judges are already getting prepared for November 5th... Thursday, the Peoria County Election Commission held two in-person training sessions for those volunteering...
Oct 11, 2024
UPDATE: Suspect in robbery of Peoria Walgreens found in Mercer County
UPDATED 5:10 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The man wanted by Peoria Police for a robbery at a Walgreens last month has been taken into custody. Peoria Police say 41-year-old Jeffrey Holbrook was found in Aledo,...
Oct 11, 2024 (Peoria Police Department)
Peoria Park District expresses "regret" for comments made about Juneteenth celebration at board meeting
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Park District says it is expressing "regret" over comments made during a discussion at its meeting last week. In a statement released Thursday, the park district says it was ...
Oct 10, 2024 (Peoria Park District)
Bartonville donut shop announces closing
PEORIA Ill. - Owners of a local donut shop announce -- they'll soon be closing their doors, for good. "Big Mike's Donuts and Coffee" in Bartonville, shared a post on Facebook, Thursday, saying the sto...
Oct 10, 2024 (Big Mike's Donuts & Coffee)
