Category Archives: Local News
Comptroller urges awareness of tax scams
(Capitol News Illinois) - State Comptroller Susana Mendoza is warning Illinoisans of email, telephone and mail tax scams as the 2024 filing season begins. One scam, for example, may contain a letter i...
Feb 04, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Comptroller's Office)
State announces parks funding
(Capitol News Illinois) - The state announced 111 parks and recreation projects throughout Illinois will receive a portion of $55 million in state funding this year. The Open Space Land Acquisition an...
Feb 04, 2024 (Illinois Department of Natural Resources)
Anchor store leaving Peoria's Northwoods Mall. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - One of the anchor stores at Northwoods Mall will be closing down. 25 News reports Chicago-based The RoomPlace has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. The move will close eigh...
Feb 03, 2024 (Northwoods Mall Facebook Page)
Group challenging Trump's ballot access in Cook County court hopes for quick decision
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A national voting rights organization is asking a Cook County judge to overturn a ruling from the Illinois State Board of Elections and block former Preside...
Feb 03, 2024 Donald Trump faces a legal review in Cook County court after the Illinois State Board of Elections rejected a request to remove his name from the 2024 ballot. (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams. Original photo by Gage Skidmore used under CC-SA 2.0 license.)
Man arrested Thursday evening in Peoria after reported altercation led to stabbing
PEORIA, Ill. - A reported altercation led to a stabbing Thursday evening near downtown Peoria. Peoria Police say officers arrived in the area of Green St. and Madison Ave. just after 9:30 P.M., findin...
Feb 02, 2024 Damion Gulliford Mugshot (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Copays take effect for immigrant health programs as cost estimates continue to decline
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Cost estimates for a pair of state-funded health care programs serving certain low-income noncitizens have declined by tens of millions of dollars in recent...
Feb 02, 2024 Data from the Department on Healthcare and Family Services shows the per-patient costs for a pair of health programs that serve certain immigrant populations have declined in recent months as the JB Pritzker administration has initiated cost-saving measures. (Capitol News Illinois graphic by Jerry Nowicki)
Tazewell County government nearly recovered from November cyber incident
PEKIN, Ill. - Operations in Tazewell County government are nearly back to normal after a cyber attack in November affected phone and computer systems. County Board Chairman David Zimmerman offered an ...
Feb 02, 2024 (Tazewell County)
Kahl addresses some social media 'nonsense' during State of East Peoria address
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - East Peoria Mayor John Kahl will often tell you he's a pretty positive guy. But in his State of East Peoria speech Friday, he had to address a couple of things he referred to as "n...
Feb 02, 2024 East Peoria Mayor John Kahl gives his "State of the City" speech Friday, February 2, at Paradice Hotel in East Peoria. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Apartment fire causes about $3,000 damage in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A resident escaped an apartment fire in East Peoria Thursday night. Firefighters were called to the building on High Oak Drive around 7:10 p.m., extinguishing the fire within a few...
Feb 02, 2024 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Democratic leaders poised to revisit Biometric Information Privacy Act after court rulings
(Capitol News Illinois) - Nearly a year ago, the Illinois Supreme Court asked the General Assembly to clarify a 15-year-old law that's led to hundreds of lawsuits and several high-dollar settlements w...
Feb 02, 2024 State Sen. Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, is pictured at a committee hearing in Chicago in July 2023. Cunningham is the lead sponsor of a bill to curtail the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Andrew Adams)
