Category Archives: Local News
Choate director replaced as new report says abuse at the facility hasn't stopped
This article was produced for ProPublica's Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois) - State officials this week named a new leader of Choate Mental He...
Aug 16, 2023 (Illustration by ProPublica. Source images: Whitney Curtis for ProPublica and Equip for Equality Report.)
Emails shown at trial detail Madigan world's response to 2018 sexual harassment scandal
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - In early 2018, longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was facing a sexual harassment scandal that his closest advisors worried could doom his political futur...
Aug 16, 2023 Former House Speaker Michael Madigan (middle), confidant Mike McClain (left) and longtime chief of staff Tim Mapes are pictured in Capitol News Illinois file photos. Email exchanges between Mapes and McClain pertaining to Madigan were shown to a federal jury Tuesday in Mapes' perjury trial. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Andrew Adams and Jerry Nowicki)
Teenager arrested on weapons charges after police chase in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police arrested a teenager on weapons charges after a brief chase Tuesday afternoon in South Peoria. Officers attempted to make contact with a 13-year-old who was a wanted subjec...
Aug 16, 2023 Midwest Communications
Peoria woman accused by grand jury of having sex with a minor
UPDATED 2:09 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A now-former employee of Peoria's Friendship House was indicted by a Grand Jury on Tuesday for Criminal Sexual Assault, a class 1 felony. Jasmine Lamon, 22, according ...
Aug 16, 2023 Jasmine Lamon (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Friendship House/LinkedIn)
Peoria crews battle garage fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria crews were called to a garage fire early Wednesday morning in the area of E. Corrington and N. Maryland Avenue. Firefighters arrived just before 1:30 a.m., finding a detached gar...
Aug 16, 2023 D4E / CC
Gun industry group challenges new firearms marketing restrictions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A gun trade association has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Illinois law that restricts how gun dealers and manufacturers market their products. T...
Aug 15, 2023 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul listens during a May House floor debate of a bill subjecting gun dealers and manufacturers to civil action if they use deceptive marketing practices. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Reaction to prison sentence for the man who firebombed Peoria's Planned Parenthood facility
PEORIA, Ill. - "This was an attack on all of us." That's how Congressman Eric Sorensen described the firebombing of the Peoria Planned Parenthood facility, not long after the man who did it got a ten ...
Aug 15, 2023 Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-East Moline), and Jennifer Welch, CEO of Planned Parenthood Illinois, speak Tuesday at a news conference outside the federal court building in downtown Peoria. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New Illinois law allows time spent at work-related learning events to count towards school attendance for students
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A new state law will mean a day on the farm or other learning activities for Illinois students will not affect their attendance record. Instead of being marked absent for attending...
Aug 15, 2023 (State of Illinois)
Man who firebombed Peoria's Planned Parenthood clinic sentenced to ten years in federal prison
PEORIA, Ill. - A Chillicothe man was sentenced to more than what prosecutors wanted after admitting to a firebombing of the Planned Parenthood facility in Peoria earlier this year. A federal judge Tue...
Aug 15, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
'The feds are still after me and our Friend:' jury sees email exchanges between Madigan confidants
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - After the FBI raided his western Illinois home in May 2019, Mike McClain - an influential lobbyist and close confidant of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madiga...
Aug 15, 2023 Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Monday. He is standing trial for perjury and obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
