Category Archives: Local News
Polling location in Pekin moved week before Election Day. Here's what we know
PEKIN, Ill. - Election Day for the Illinois primaries is next Tuesday, and some voters in Pekin will be voting in a new location. Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman says Precincts 7 and 9 will now be...
Mar 11, 2024 (Pekin Public Library)
Peoria County Jail escapee going to prison
PEORIA, Ill. - A Norwood man is going to prison for a total of ten years after escaping the Peoria County Jail last year, stealing a vehicle, and ending up in Pekin where he was caught. Peoria County ...
Mar 11, 2024 Cory Bragg (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Status of repairs to Riverview Plaza building in downtown Peoria uncertain a month after being shut down
PEORIA, Ill. - It's been a little more than a month since the Riverview Plaza building in downtown Peoria was shut down, and little progress has been made on needed work to reopen it. Last month, wate...
Mar 11, 2024 A moving truck is seen outside the Riverview Plaza building on March 11th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
GasBuddy: Local gas prices down slightly
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have fallen 1.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.56 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are...
Mar 11, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Unions back measure protecting employees who skip religious or political work meetings
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Democrats in the Illinois Senate on Wednesday advanced a measure that would prohibit Illinois companies from requiring employees to attend work-related meet...
Mar 10, 2024 AFL-CIO President Tim Drea is pictured at a Springfield news conference in October 2021. Drea’s AFL-CIO labor organization is backing a bill that would protect employees who abstain from political or religious work meetings from retaliation by their employer. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
East Bluff home damaged by Saturday fire
PEORIA, Ill. - At least $20,000 in damage was done to a home by an accidental fire Saturday afternoon. That's what Peoria Firefighters say, after crews were called to the home on East Maywood in the c...
Mar 10, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Nearly 9 in 10 state-level primaries give voters no choice in candidates
(Capitol News Illinois) - On March 19, voting will conclude in primary contests for hundreds of seats in the Illinois legislature and in the state's court system. But most of those contests are uncomp...
Mar 10, 2024 The exterior of the Illinois State Capitol is pictured in Springfield. In 2024, nearly 90 percent of Statehouse primaries feature either one candidate or none at all. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Richwoods takes 3rd Place at IHSA Championships
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Peoria's Richwoods High School ended a very memorable season with a win Friday night, taking home the third-place trophy in Class 3A of the Illinois High School Association boys' bas...
Mar 09, 2024 (Richwoods High School Facebook Page)
Peoria city council to vote on East Bluff road project, city manager salary
PEORIA, Ill. - One of the main roads in Peoria's East Bluff could soon see some major improvements. The Peoria City Council is scheduled to vote on a proposal at the Tuesday, March 12th meeting on a n...
Mar 08, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Illinois State University to make hire from within for new president
NORMAL, Ill. - Illinois State University appears to have its new leader, and did not have to look far for it. The university's Board of Trustees is planning to meet in a special meeting on March 18th ...
Mar 08, 2024 Dr. Aondover Tarhule (Illinois State University)
