Category Archives: Local News
Advocates underscore need for statewide reentry programs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois legislators this week approved a bill to restructure an oversight board in charge of distributing state money to courts that provide prison alterna...
May 23, 2024 Antonio Lightfoot, deputy director at the nonprofit Workers Center for Racial Justice, speaks at a news conference in the Illinois State Capitol. Advocates wore orange jumpsuits to symbolize the restrictions placed on people who return to society from prison. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Dilpreet Raju)
17-year-old arrested on gun charges in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager was arrested on gun charges on Tuesday night in Peoria. Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers tried to stop a vehicle near Sheridan Road and Bartlett Court around 9:1...
May 23, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Kitchen fire displaces Peoria couple from their home
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria home was heavily damaged by a kitchen fire Wednesday evening, displacing a couple who lived there. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun says a dog was rescued from the base...
May 23, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man accused of being in possession of pipe bombs in Pekin ordered to remain in jail
PEKIN, Ill. - A Tazewell County judge has ordered a man alleged to have had pipe bombs to remain in jail until his trial. 25 News reports 34-year-old Dalton Mattus will be back in court June 20th afte...
May 22, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Music festival returns to Chillicothe this weekend under a new name
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - A Memorial Day weekend tradition outside of Chillicothe returns this year, but with a new name and look. The formerly known Summer Camp is now Solshine Reverie, running Thursday th...
May 22, 2024 (Summer Camp/Solshine Reverie)
Woman injured after Wednesday morning stabbing in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a stabbing in South Peoria early Wednesday morning. Peoria Police found an adult female with apparent stab wounds in the area of Sta...
May 22, 2024 (Midwest Communication)
Peorians sentenced for trying to rob area gun stores
PEORIA, Ill. - Four Peoria residents were sentenced after trying to rob several area gun stores. The Department of Justice says 22-year-old Erika Garner was sentenced on Tuesday to time served, follow...
May 22, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Power restored to most Ameren customers in Central IL
UPDATED 11:25 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - As of late Wednesday morning, power has been restored to most Central Illinois Ameren customers. As of 11 a.m., the number of homes without power in Tazewell County w...
May 22, 2024 (Ameren Illinois)
Woodford County Board votes to affirm non-sanctuary status of county
EUREKA, Ill. - The Woodford County Board, on its second try, has approved its non-sanctuary status. The resolution to affirm the status was approved by a voice vote at Tuesday night's meeting. It was ...
May 21, 2024 Woodford County Board members listen to the public comment portion of the May 21st, 2024 meeting before a vote on the county's sanctuary status. (Woodford County Zoom)
As legislative session adjournment looms, a rush to regulate carbon capture industry
SPRINGFIELD - A technology that some say is a key tool to address climate change and others say is a cash grab for heavy industry could face new regulations - if lawmakers can find the time before the...
May 21, 2024 The interior of the Illinois Capitol is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
