Category Archives: Local News
Woman injured after Wednesday evening shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating a shooting from Wednesday night that injured a woman. Police say 19 shots were fired in the area of Gift and Isabell just after 8:30 P.M. Officers did no...
May 2, 2024
Peoria Fire performs river rescue of man Thursday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A man suffered minor injuries after being pulled from the river Thursday morning. Peoria Fire says crews responded at around 11:30 A.M. to reports of a person in the water. They arrived...
May 2, 2024 (Peoria Fire Dept.)
Groundbreaking ceremony held for band shelter at Pekin's Mineral Springs Park
PEKIN, Ill. - Leaders in Pekin have begun the work to build a new band shelter in the city's Mineral Springs Park. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday morning at the site of the Steven D. Skin...
May 2, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Democrats muscle through changes to ballot access, advisory questions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Supermajority Democrats in the Illinois House moved quickly Wednesday to push through a change to state election laws that partially limits ballot access an...
May 2, 2024 State Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, smiles on the House floor after Republicans chose not to debate his proposed election law changes, instead voting present then leaving the chamber for a news conference. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Collins: A chance of severe storms Thursday. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Scattered severe storms are possible in Central Illinois Thursday afternoon. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins says we could start seeing a few storms after 3 p.m. "...
May 2, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria Zoo's giraffe Taji passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Zoo is mourning the passing of one of their giraffes. The zoo announced that Taji was humanely euthanized on Tuesday. Taji had received specialized shoes earlier this year af...
May 1, 2024 (Peoria Zoo/Peoria Park District)
Peoria City to host Mexican soccer club for two matches at Shea Stadium in June
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria City will play against international competition for the first time next month. The club announced Wednesday the inaugural Copa Peoria Series, with two games against the under-23...
May 1, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Reservoir Gifted Academy unveils new Outdoor Classroom
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Reservoir Gifted Academy has a new classroom...outside. On Wednesday, Reservoir Gifted Principal Susan Martin thanked alumni, students and school administrators for their part ...
May 1, 2024 Principal Susan Martin speaking at the ribbon cutting of Reservoir Gifted Academy's new Outdoor Classroom.
(1470/100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
Man injured by glass after shots fired in Peoria's East Bluff Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Police are investigating a shooting from Tuesday night in Peoria's East Bluff that sent a man to the hospital Peoria Police say ten rounds were fired in the area of the 400-block of Eas...
May 1, 2024
After 3 years, state poised to enforce law aiming to end lending discrimination
SPRINGFIELD - In 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law that sought to wipe away the last vestiges of racial discrimination and redlining in Am...
May 1, 2024 Mario Treto Jr., secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, testifies before the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules in April about the final adoption of rules to implement the 2021 Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
