Category Archives: Top Stories
'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies
Article Summary Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times by immigration agents last year, testified at a public forum on immigration agents' use of force in D.C. on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Panelists and mem...
Feb 04, 2026 Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman who federal immigration agents shot five times last
October, speaks Washington, D.C. forum on Tuesday. (Screenshot from Senator Richard
Blumenthal livestream.)
'Ludicrous': Peoria asks judge to halt new Par-A-Dice development
By Gianna Njau and Lizzie Seils PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The City of Peoria is asking a judge to stop an upcoming vote from the Illinois Gaming Board as it mulls whether to allow a proposed land-based...
Feb 04, 2026 (25 News)
Pritzker sticking to proposal to fully fund pensions
Article Summary Gov. JB Pritzker said he will push forward on his 2024 proposal to fully fund pensions and address other funding issues. Pritzker's plan calls for fully funding pensions by 2048, rathe...
Feb 03, 2026 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at an event at the Illinois AFL-CIO in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws
Article Summary JB Pritzker announced Illinois will join the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, allowing the state to receive information about spreading diseases ...
Feb 03, 2026 Gov. JB Pritzker wears an Illinois face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Iran demands changes in venue and scope of talks with US, source says
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Iran is demanding that talks with the U.S. this week be held in Oman not Turkey, and that the scope be narrowed to two-way negotiations on nuclear issues only, a re...
Feb 03, 2026 FILE PHOTO: Iranian clerics stand in the Islamic seminary that was burned during Iran's protests, in Tehran, Iran, January 21, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
PPD squad car involved in crash Tuesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A crash in downtown Peoria Tuesday morning involved a police cruiser. Police Spokesperson Semone Roth said the accident happened at the intersection of Monroe and Fayette Streets around...
Feb 03, 2026
UPDATE: Trump signs spending bill that ends four-day government shutdown
UPDATED 3:53 P.M. WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a spending deal into law that ends a partial U.S. government shutdown and gives lawmakers time to negotiat...
Feb 03, 2026 U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA ) speaks with reporters as he departs meeting with members of the House Rules Committee, at the U.S. Capitol on day three of a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 2, 2026. REUTERS/Al Drago
Child care funding freeze could worsen shortage in Illinois, providers say
Article Summary If the courts allow the Trump administration's freeze on federal child care funding to happen, a Springfield provider said she'll likely have to close her 30-year business. A recent re...
Feb 03, 2026 Pamela Franks is a home child care provider in Springfield who relies on money from federal child care and family services programs that are under threat from the Trump administration. (photo submitted by SEIU Healthcare Illinois)
Judge in Charlie Kirk case to consider bid to disqualify prosecutors
By Andrew Hay Feb 3 (Reuters) - Lawyers for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk will urge a judge on Tuesday to dismiss the prosecution team due to alleged conflict of ...
Feb 03, 2026 Fourth District Court Judge Tony Graf presides over a hearing for Tyler Robinson, suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, in Provo, Utah, U.S., on January 16, 2026. Bethany Baker/Pool via REUTERS
Clintons agree to testify in Epstein congressional probe ahead of contempt vote
By Ismail Shakil, David Morgan and Kanishka Singh Feb 2 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, will testify in a congressional in...
Feb 03, 2026 Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrives with his wife, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for the inauguration ceremonies swearing in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States on the West front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
