Category Archives: Local News
Florida Governor to make Peoria appearance
PEORIA, Ill. - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is coming to Peoria. That's according to the campaign office of Republican Congressman Darin LaHood. The campaign says DeSantis, who has not yet announced ...
Apr 11, 2023 Matt Johnson / CC
Missing Civil War artifacts coming back to Tazewell County
PEKIN, Ill. - A mystery that has lasted for parts of seven decades in Tazewell County has now been solved. More than 70 Civil War artifacts that were in the county's possession had been unaccounted fo...
Apr 11, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Woman with history of giving makes special shirts for children going through chemo
MORTON, Ill. - A Tazewell County business owner has come up with a way to help kids going through cancer, by getting them to feel more "normal." Corrina Dea owns "The Unlimited Stitch" in Morton. She'...
Apr 11, 2023 (25 News)
Peoria Papa John's robbed at gunpoint
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police say a gunman robbed a Papa John's Pizza location near Bradley University Monday night. Police were called just after 8:30 p.m. to the restaurant near the corner of N. Bou...
Apr 11, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Blickenstaff's Peoria area properties for sale
PEORIA, Ill. -- Central Illinois developer Kim Blickenstaff's KDB Group is selling several local properties he renovated, then scaled back on, laying off workers in January. A pair of realtor websites...
Apr 11, 2023 (Courtesy Mark Davis)
Gas prices increase again in Peoria area
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices continue to rise in the Peoria area. That's according to both AAA and GasBuddy.com. GasBuddy says their survey shows an 8.9 cent week-over-week price hike. Their gallon of un...
Apr 10, 2023 Orin Zebest / CC
Delavan man dies in rural Pekin car crash
PEKIN, Ill. - A Delavan resident is dead after an accident in rural Pekin Sunday evening. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley doesn't provide many details of the crash, except that Justin Defenbaug...
Apr 10, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Durbin, judiciary committee, want investigation of Thomas' alleged wrongdoing
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Illinois' senior U.S. Senator is among those that are asking for a full investigation now that media reports claim Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas didn't disclose years of cru...
Apr 10, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pritzker: 'Devil's in the details' when considering lifting ban on new nuclear
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers went on a two-week spring break last week with more than 700 bills already passed in at least one chamber of the General Assembly. They will retur...
Apr 10, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker said last week he does not think lifting a ban on new nuclear power construction would be contradictory to the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act that he signed in 2021. Some environmentalists have opposed lifting the nuclear ban due to the dangers associated with nuclear waste. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Fulton County tornado damage: by the numbers
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - Officials in Fulton County are starting to put out some numbers other than the one we knew about: which was "three" as in the strongest of the tornadoes that went through that ar...
Apr 10, 2023 (Fulton County Sheriffs Department)
