Category Archives: Local News
Enrollment up at Illinois Central College
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - There's more Cougars in central Illinois this fall. Illinois Central College on Thursday reported a 5.1% increase in enrollment for the fall 2024 semester, compared to fall 2023. T...
Aug 22, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Illinois Democrats look to invest resources in swing states
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - On the final day of the Democratic National Convention, Illinois party leaders were preparing Thursday to hear Vice President Kamala Harris' acceptance speech a...
Aug 22, 2024 Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democratic governor from a red state, speaks to the Illinois delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Pritzker, Dems push to widen abortion messaging beyond 'social issues' silo
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker used part of his eight-minute primetime speech at the Democratic National Convention this week to push his own party to shift its messaging on ...
Aug 22, 2024 Planned Parenthood Action Fund CEO Alexis McGill Johnson (second from left) speaks at an event put on by Think Big America, a progressive political action organization launched by Gov. JB Pritzker (center) last year. The panel also included Kelly Hall of The Fairness Project (left), Mini Timmaraju of Reproductive Freedom for All and Sarah Garza Resnick of Personal PAC (right). (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Two men arrested in East Peoria on residential burglary charges
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Two men were arrested on residential burglary charges after allegedly breaking into an East Peoria home early Wednesday morning. Police say officers were called just after 2:00 A.M...
Aug 22, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
"Unknown" Civil Rights activist to get spotlight at Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. - A highly influential, but mostly unknown, player in the Civil Rights movement is getting a spotlight shined on him in Peoria. The Dirksen Congressional Center will be hosting a celebrat...
Aug 22, 2024 (Dirksen Congressional Center)
KB Strong celebrates 6th BrownFest this weekend in Washington
WASHINGTON, Ill. - Washington's annual BrownFest is back this weekend. The fundraiser is held in honor of Washington Basketball Coach Kevin Brown, who lost his fight with Glioblastoma several years ag...
Aug 22, 2024 (KB-Strong Foundation)
Inmate's murder plans foiled by PCSO staff
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County Jail inmate has been charged with trying to arrange the murder of a man he's accused of shooting back in April. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted 43-year-old Aubrae Harpe...
Aug 22, 2024 (Peoria County Jail)
DNC brings thousands of pro-Palestine protestors to Chicago's streets
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Protestors in Chicago this week have shut down streets, broken through security fencing, clashed with police and interrupted events associated with the Democrat...
Aug 21, 2024 A masked protestor holds up a green smoke bomb during a protest march on Monday near the site of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria shopping center sold to new owners
PEORIA, Ill. - A shopping center in the heart of Peoria will have new owners. In a social media post Wednesday, Eric Brinker says his family has decided to sell the Metro Centre after 52 years. He say...
Aug 21, 2024 (Metro Centre Facebook)
Amid a 'really, really big week for labor,' Illinois unions, Democrats held up as model
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Organized labor has been everywhere at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, from the main stage to the Illinois delegation's morning breakfa...
Aug 21, 2024 Illinois AFL-CIO President Tim Drea addresses the Illinois delegation at its Wednesday morning breakfast. He said it’s been a “really, really big week for labor” thus far as the Democratic National Convention continues in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
