Category Archives: Local News
Peoria area gas prices rising, expected to go even higher. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have risen 4.8 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.26 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are 2...
Feb 12, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Long-running, nagging coughs may be a problem post-COVID, post-RSV, post flu
PEORIA, Ill. - While viruses like COVID-19, RSV, and the flu have been on the way down so far this year, some lingering effects remain. Effects like a nagging or near constant cough. It could be a six...
Feb 11, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
In crisis, she went to an Illinois facility. Two years later, she still isn't able to leave
(Capitol News Illinois) - Kaleigh Rogers was in crisis when she checked into a state-run institution on Illinois' northern border two years ago. Rogers, who has cerebral palsy, had a mental health bre...
Feb 11, 2024 Kaleigh Rogers, 26, in her bedroom at Kiley Developmental Center in Waukegan, Illinois. Rogers checked into the center after a mental health breakdown. Now stabilized, she has been unable to find a better placement. (Taylor Glascock, special to ProPublica via Capitol News Illinois)
High school students across Illinois are crowning a chess champion in Peoria this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a competition this weekend at the Peoria Civic Center that's a little quieter than what you would typically expect from a Bradley Braves or Peoria Rivermen game. The Illinois Hi...
Feb 10, 2024 Dunlap and Elgin in a match at the 2024 IHSA State Chess Finals at the Peoria Civic Center Ballroom. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Negotiations over contracts represent about 3,800 Teamsters around the state
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Several Teamsters unions representing thousands of state highway workers have authorized strikes as contract negotiations between them and the state's Depar...
Feb 10, 2024 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
Former lawmaker taken into custody amid delays to his corruption trial after sudden hospitalization
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Republican State Sen. Sam McCann, a onetime third-party candidate for governor, was taken into custody Friday morning ahead of his federal corruption...
Feb 09, 2024 Former GOP state Sen. Sam McCann’s pickup truck – the same make and model of a truck named as an illicit purchase in his indictment – is parked outside of the Paul Findley Federal Courthouse in Springfield, where McCann was supposed to have faced a corruption trial this week. Instead, he checked himself into the hospital over the weekend and his trial was delayed until Monday. The judge in the case ordered McCann detained Friday until the trial’s new start date, accusing McCann of making “excuses.” (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
UPDATED: Street sweeper part of damage after a fire to a city-owned building in Washington
UPDATED 5:19 P.M. WASHINGTON, Ill. - A city of Washington garage suffered damage after a fire Friday afternoon that appears to have started in a vehicle. Washington Assistant Fire Chief Tyler Gee says...
Feb 09, 2024 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
NWS: Hail in Peoria, but at least one tornado reported with Thursday storms
MARSHALL AND PUTNAM COUNTIES, Ill. - What the National Weather Service called a "small complex" of storms caused mostly hail in the Peoria, but to our north, at least one tornado. The Weather Service ...
Feb 09, 2024 (National Weather Service, Lincoln, IL)
Peoria Heights-based meat shop prepares for Super Bowl-related sales
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Super Bowl Sunday has become an unofficial holiday in the United States, full of gatherings with bountiful spreads of food. That's according to Pat Alwan, owner of Alwan and Son...
Feb 09, 2024 (Alwan and Sons Meat Company Facebook)
Suspect in first Peoria homicide of year arrested in Texas
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say a second suspect has been identified and arrested in connection with the city's first homicide of the year. Police say U.S. Marshals helped arrest Mickael Williams, 25...
Feb 09, 2024 Mickael Williams (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail July 2018)
