Category Archives: Local News
UnityPoint Health-Central Illinois, Carle Health to merge
URBANA, Ill. - UnityPoint Health-Central Illinois will no longer be under that name by next Spring. UnityPoint says it will enter in to a "strategic affiliation agreement" with Urbana-based Carle Heal...
Nov 01, 2022 (Carle Health/UnityPoint Health)
Expansion of Peoria's Rock Island Greenway continues
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Rock Island Greenway is getting bigger and bigger; and with some regulation out of the way, the pedestrian and bike path will soon grow again. The greenway has been extended ag...
Nov 01, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Civic Center hosting 18 shows in 12 days in November
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's an upcoming jam-packed schedule for the Peoria Civic Center. Civic Center General Manager Rik Edgar says they'll be hosting 18 shows in the next 12 days, kicking off Wednesday nig...
Nov 01, 2022 (File-Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD)
ELECTION: Rundown of all Illinois statewide races and issues
SPRINGFIELD - In the Tuesday, Nov. 8, election, Illinois voters will cast a ballot on a state constitutional amendment, every statewide constitutional office, every seat in the General Assembly and, i...
Nov 01, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria home demolished after fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to a home on W. Howett Street, near S. Louisa and S. Webster, Monday night on reports of fire. Fire Battalion Chief Tom Stimeling said crews arrived jus...
Nov 01, 2022 Midwest Communications
U.S. Halloween night shootings kill one, injure about 20
(Reuters) -One person was killed and about 20 wounded on Halloween night in two separate shooting attacks in the U.S. cities of Kansas City and Chicago, police said. Between five and seven people were...
Nov 01, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Ann Callahan, mother of U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, passes away
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The mother of 17th District Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has died. Ann Callahan was 89 when, according to an obituary from the Congresswoman's office, she passed away Sunday at her S...
Oct 31, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/U. S. House of Representatives)
Woman pleads not guilty after decomposed body found in storage unit
GALESBURG, Ill. - A rural Knox County resident has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging, among other things, she had a dead body in a storage locker. Marcy Oglesby, 50, pleaded not guilty in Knox Co...
Oct 31, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Knox County Jail)
Peoria teen develops water irrigation system
PEORIA, Ill. - The struggle for people in some parts of the world, coupled with people who somehow water their lawns while it's raining, inspired a local student to create a better way. Kushi Shah's i...
Oct 31, 2022 (Kushi Shah via 25 News)
Supply chain concerns compound for Central Illinois farmers
PEORIA, Ill. -- There remain significant supply chain concerns for many central Illinois farmers and agricultural producers. A combination of ongoing high fuel prices as well as uncertainty with a rai...
Oct 31, 2022 Alabama Extension
