Category Archives: Local News
Final goodbye for fallen Knox County Sheriffs Deputy
GALESBURG, Ill. - People are gathering Saturday to pay their final respects to a Knox County Sheriffs Deputy killed in the line of duty a week ago Friday. Funeral services for Nicholas Weist, 34, will...
May 7, 2022 (via Facebook)
Pekin apartments damaged by fire, one injured
PEKIN, Ill. - One person was taken to the hospital after fire broke out Friday afternoon at a Pekin apartment complex. Pekin Fire Chief Trent Reeise says crews were called to the scene on Valle Vista ...
May 6, 2022 (25 News)
Survivors take part in "More Than Pink Walk"
PEORIA, Ill. - Hundreds of cancer survivors are expected to take part in Peoria's "More Than Pink Walk" Saturday morning. One of them is Wanda Schoch of East Peoria. She was diagnosed with a rare form...
May 6, 2022 (Susan G. Komen)
Man who escaped from van in Woodford County still wanted
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - There may not be an active search, but police are hopeful someone might have seen a man who escaped from a transport van in Woodford County late Wednesday. Javier Aguirre, 47, ...
May 6, 2022 (Illinois State Police)
Pritzker responds to audit on deadly LaSalle Veterans' Home COVID outbreak in 2020
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- In response to a less than flattering audit report about a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at a Northern Illinois long term care facility, drawing memories of a similar deadly nursing ho...
May 6, 2022 (State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
Luft reacts to LaSalle Veterans Home COVID-19 outbreak
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Republicans in the Illinois Legislature are wasting no time throwing the blame at Democratic Governor JB Pritzker for the handling of COVID-19 outbreak at a veterans home during th...
May 6, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
A throw back to history and a focus on expansion in East Peoria State of the City Address
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria Mayor John Kahl is expressing excitement at future development and the prospects of a bustling city east of the Illinois River in years to come. During the annual Stat...
May 6, 2022 (Cooper Banks/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State honors fallen police officers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois backs the blue and honors their fallen. Eleven police officers were killed in the line of duty last year in the state. Thursday, they were honored at a memorial on the Sta...
May 5, 2022 (Illinois Police Officers Memorial)
Former VP Mike Pence to headline Lincoln Day Dinner in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A former Vice President will headline the annual Peoria-Tazewell Lincoln Day Dinner next month. The campaign of Congressman Darin LaHood says Mike Pence will give the keynote address at...
May 5, 2022 Anthony Quintano / CC
State receives credit rating boost as Pritzker signs pension buyout extension
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker got what he says was good news for Illinois taxpayers Thursday, as he signed a law to extend a pension buyout program for state employees. "As we've been sitti...
May 5, 2022 (State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
