Category Archives: Local News
Peoria Heights bakery busy baking up Valentine's treats this week
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Not everyone wants flowers for Valentine's Day, but most everyone loves chocolate. Trefzger's Bakery in Peoria Heights has been preparing for Valentine's Day for over a week, ma...
Feb 13, 2024 Chocolate covered Strawberries and cupcakes for Valentines Day at Trefzgers Bakery in Peoria Heights. (Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute receives blessing before taking in first patients
PEORIA, Ill. - The OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute in Peoria is nearly ready to start accepting its first patients. One of the final steps before the facility opens was to bless the building, a tradit...
Feb 13, 2024 Peoria Diocese Bishop Louis Tylka blesses the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute before it opens. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
CPB audit of WTVP finances scheduled for next month
PEORIA, Ill. - An audit of the finances of public television station WTVP is expected to begin next month. That's according to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is withholding its annual ...
Feb 13, 2024 (25 News)
Florist shop in the Heights buzzing ahead of Valentine's Day
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - For florists, Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are their two busiest days of the year. Prospect Florist in Peoria Heights was buzzing on Thursday, as arrangers pulled together h...
Feb 13, 2024 An assortment of colored roses ready for Valentine's Day at Prospect Florist in Peoria Heights, Illinois. (Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Public Schools move forward with addition of electric school buses
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools are one step closer to having electric school buses in their fleet. The district's school board Monday night, as part of their Consent Agenda, approved a letter of...
Feb 13, 2024 (From a presentation to Peoria Public School Board members Monday, February 12.)
Referendum signs vandalized and stolen in Metamora. Here's what we know
METAMORA, Ill. - Signs supporting Metamora Grade School's tax referendum proposal were stolen over the weekend, but school board members are still hoping residents will vote in favor of a tax increase...
Feb 13, 2024 (25 News)
UPDATE: Echevarria to Peoria Park District: Cancel Glen Oak Park fireworks in July. Here's why
UPDATED 2:47 P.M. 2/13/24 PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria wants one of two Fourth of July fireworks shows in the city called off this year. Echevarria says after two shootings and a...
Feb 12, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria-area baseball legend among people honored with state's highest honor for civilians
CHICAGO, Ill. - A baseball legend from Peoria is one of the recipients of the highest honors in the state of Illinois. Jim Thome was announced Monday as one of seven 2024 recipients of the Order of Li...
Feb 12, 2024 (File-25 News)
Ex-Madigan aide sentenced to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice attempt, perjury
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - For most of his adult working life, Tim Mapes only had one boss: former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. And for the more than 25 years he served as Madigan's ...
Feb 12, 2024 Former political insider Tim Mapes and his wife Bronwyn Rains exit the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago on Monday after Mapes was sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury and attempted obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Gun rights groups ask SCOTUS to review Illinois' assault weapons ban
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - In a long-expected move, national gun rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Illinois' ban on assault weapons and large capacity...
Feb 12, 2024 Pictured is the front page of the National Association for Gun Rights’ petition to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a review of Illinois’ assault weapons ban.
