Category Archives: Local News
Peoria Zoo's giraffe Taji passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Zoo is mourning the passing of one of their giraffes. The zoo announced that Taji was humanely euthanized on Tuesday. Taji had received specialized shoes earlier this year af...
May 01, 2024 (Peoria Zoo/Peoria Park District)
Peoria City to host Mexican soccer club for two matches at Shea Stadium in June
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria City will play against international competition for the first time next month. The club announced Wednesday the inaugural Copa Peoria Series, with two games against the under-23...
May 01, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Reservoir Gifted Academy unveils new Outdoor Classroom
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Reservoir Gifted Academy has a new classroom...outside. On Wednesday, Reservoir Gifted Principal Susan Martin thanked alumni, students and school administrators for their part ...
May 01, 2024 Principal Susan Martin speaking at the ribbon cutting of Reservoir Gifted Academy's new Outdoor Classroom.
(1470/100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
Man injured by glass after shots fired in Peoria's East Bluff Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Police are investigating a shooting from Tuesday night in Peoria's East Bluff that sent a man to the hospital Peoria Police say ten rounds were fired in the area of the 400-block of Eas...
May 01, 2024
After 3 years, state poised to enforce law aiming to end lending discrimination
SPRINGFIELD - In 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law that sought to wipe away the last vestiges of racial discrimination and redlining in Am...
May 01, 2024 Mario Treto Jr., secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, testifies before the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules in April about the final adoption of rules to implement the 2021 Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Comcast drops Bally Sports regional sports networks as agreement not reached
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Sports fans looking to watch their favorite teams lost an option to do so overnight Tuesday. In a social media post, Diamond Sports Group announced that Comcast has rejected a pr...
May 01, 2024 An on-screen message replaces Bally Sports Midwest on Comcast cable lineups in the Peoria-area. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Area students perform in downtown Peoria during GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration
PEORIA, Ill. - This time each year, you start seeing a lot of school buses in downtown Peoria...and music coming from the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza. Thousands of students are again performing thi...
May 01, 2024 Students singing at the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza with the Gerald M. Brookhart Arts in Education Spring Celebration.
(GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration Facebook page)
Wednesday morning fire damages home in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Two animals and a resident were able to escape a house fire in East Peoria Wednesday morning without injury. East Peoria Fire says crews were called to the two-story home just afte...
May 01, 2024 Midwest Communications
Peoria home demolished after fire Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on Tonti Circle on reports of a fire Tuesday night. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when crews arrived around 8:20 p.m., they found heav...
May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Coroner identifies 18-year-old shot and killed in Peoria
UPDATE 9:19 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the young man who was shot and killed Tuesday night in Peoria. Harwood says the victim is 18-year-old MikeQuese Taylo...
May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
