Category Archives: Local News
One killed in petroleum plant explosion in Chicago area
LEMONT, Ill. - An explosion at a petroleum plant Tuesday morning in the Chicago area has left at least one person dead. Another person was taken to a hospital in Joliet after the explosion at Seneca P...
Apr 25, 2023 D4E / CC
Peoria man pleads guilty during trial to shooting, sent to prison
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man's trial was supposed to continue Tuesday after a shooting last September. Instead, court records indicate, Jay'vion Lee, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of Aggravated Batter...
Apr 25, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Academy Sports + Outdoors coming to Peoria
UPDATED 4:23 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A new sporting goods store will be expanding north into Peoria this summer. Academy Sports + Outdoors will occupy the former Gordman's location at Grand Prairie Plaza....
Apr 25, 2023 ((Academy Sports + Outdoors))
Peoria Public School Board delays approving new food service contract
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Public School Board may try before they buy. The board Monday night tabled a motion to approve a new one-year, food service contract with OrganicLife for more than $3.8 milli...
Apr 25, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
IL Senate GOP lawmakers discuss bills dealing with fentanyl, assaults, DUI, and others
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Senate Republican lawmakers are introducing a series of bills related to crime-fighting, including some that one area lawmaker says are one that are personal for her. Legi...
Apr 25, 2023 Sen. Sally Turner (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois General Assembly)
Pritzker advocates for workers' rights at national trades unions conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While at North America's Building Trades Unions Legislative Conference, Gov. J-B Pritzker spoke about the role that unions play in Illinois' economy. "When I spoke with you four ye...
Apr 25, 2023 (State of Illinois)
'Corrupt influence' or 'collateral damage'? Jury to decide fate of 'ComEd Four'
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Before jury deliberations begin on the fate of four ex-Commonwealth Edison officials after a six-week bribery trial, an attorney for one of the defendants got emotion...
Apr 25, 2023 Midwest Communications
Reditus court-appointed receiver asks to file $100 million lawsuit against Rossi
PEKIN, Ill. -- The attorney appointed a year ago to oversee the now shuttered Reditus Labs in Pekin is asking for the right to sue former CEO Aaron Rossi for $100 million. The request is filed in Taze...
Apr 25, 2023 (25 News)
Kitchen fire displaces Peoria family
PEORIA, Ill. -- A fire that started in a kitchen caused $60,000 damage to a Peoria home Monday evening, forcing a family to find temporary housing. Crews arrived, finding the kitchen fully engulfed in...
Apr 25, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man, living in Peoria, arrested for 2015 Ohio homicide
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Authorities say a man has been arrested in McLean County for a years-old murder in Ohio -- and the man had a Peoria tie. The U.S. Marshals Service says Martino Giles, 35, is jailed...
Apr 24, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/McLean County Jail via 25 News)
