Category Archives: Local News
Levee District road construction project set to begin
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A major road closure in East Peoria's Levee District is scheduled for Monday. West Washington Street from just east of the roundabout to the East Peoria City Hall will be closed fo...
May 31, 2024 Midwest Communications
Bradley University president resigning from role in June
PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University will be looking for a new president. The university has announced that Stephen Standifird is resigning from the position, effective June 15th, nearly four years to th...
May 31, 2024 Bradley University president Stephen Standifird speaks at an event in 2022. (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Woman from Normal identified as victim in fatal Interstate 74 crash near East Peoria
UPDATED 3:38 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A 32-year-old female from Normal has been identified as the victim in the fatal crash on Interstate 74 Friday morning near Pinecrest. Tazewell County Coroner Char...
May 31, 2024 Traffic on eastbound I-74 near the Washington Street exit was shut down Friday morning after a crash involving a semi and another vehicle. --(IDOT Camera)
Multi-vehicle crashes shut down eastbound I-74 Thursday night
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - Illinois State Police responded to a four-vehicle crash on I-74 near Morton Thursday night near Dee-Mac Road involving a semi and three cars. The accident happened around 8:52 ...
May 31, 2024 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Ban on 'captive audience' meetings, AI regulations among 466 bills to pass this session in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A bill banning what unions refer to as employer-sponsored "captive audience" meetings about religion and politics has cleared both chambers of the General A...
May 31, 2024 The Illinois Capitol dome is pictured through the trees in Springfield. Lawmakers adjourned their spring session this week after passing 466 bills this year. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Last two suspects wanted for Peoria Heights shooting incident arrested
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Police say all three suspects wanted for a shooting incident at a Peoria Heights gas station have now been arrested. The post on the Peoria Heights Police Department's Facebook ...
May 31, 2024 (Peoria Heights Police)
Peorian faces possible life sentence for 2021 fatal shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A second man has been convicted for a 2021 shooting that took the life of a 17-year-old Peoria Manual High School student. A Peoria County jury deliberated around an hour to find 22-yea...
May 31, 2024 22-year-old Gary Irby Mugshot (Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Heights starts process to hire full-time firefighters
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Peoria Heights Fire Department is looking for a few good men and women. Chief Dan Decker says applications are now available for full-time firefighter positions within the f...
May 30, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pekin man facing federal charges after allegedly being in possession of homemade weapons
PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man accused of being in possession of homemade pipe bombs and a gun is in federal custody. The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Central District of Illinois says 34-year-old Dalton...
May 30, 2024 courtroom gavel
PPS: Woodruff Career & Technical Center expanding programs next year
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools' Woodruff Career and Technical Center is expanding, adding new courses of study and offering programs to a wider range of students starting next year. Dr. Susan Gr...
May 30, 2024 Culinary students at Peoria Public Schools' Woodruff Career & Technical Center this year had 3 first place finishers in the Skills USA State Event --(Woodruff Center Facebook Page)
