Category Archives: Top Stories
WTVP, WCBU react to executive order that could cut its federal funding
PEORIA, Ill. - Public media in the Peoria-area are reacting to a President Trump executive order that could cut a portion of their federal funding. It calls for "direct funding" to the Corporation for...
May 02, 2025 (25 News)
Senate leaders split on community college bachelor's degree proposal
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Two Democratic leaders in the Illinois Senate openly expressed their disagreement this week about Gov. JB Pritzker's proposal to allow community colleges to...
May 02, 2025 State Sen. Cristina Castro is pictured in a Senate Executive Committee hearing last year in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Illinois man, who killed Palestinian child, sentenced to 53 years for hate crime
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Illinois man was sentenced on Friday to 53 years in prison after a jury convicted him in the killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and the severe wounding of his m...
May 02, 2025 courtroom gavel
UPDATE: Former Gov. George Ryan dead at 91; remembered for corruption conviction, halting death penalty
UPDATED 5:58 P.M. CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and 12 years after hi...
May 02, 2025 Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan’s photo hangs in the Statehouse’s Hall of Governors. Ryan died Friday, May 2, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Tibetan monks visit Peoria to promote peace, engage with community
PEORIA, Ill. - A trio of Tibetan monks have spent the week in Peoria to promote a message of peace. Three monks from Bloomington, Indiana are being hosted at Bradley University as part of a cultural e...
May 02, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump signs order that aims to cut funding to NPR, PBS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to cut funding to news outlets NPR and PBS, the White House said, marking the U.S. president's latest attempt to use federal fund...
May 02, 2025 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) logo and U.S. flag are seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Tazewell County Board approves building a new Animal Control facility
TREMONT, Ill. - The Tazewell County Board on Wednesday approved a new Animal Control Building, with only one "no" vote. The winning bid, for P.J. Hoerr proposed new metal construction, while three oth...
May 02, 2025 Animals at the current Tazewell County Animal Control facility. The County Board approved a new facility Wednesday night. (25 News)
US job growth slows marginally in April; unemployment rate steady at 4.2%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. job growth slowed marginally in April, but the outlook for the labor market is increasingly darkening as President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policy heightens economic...
May 02, 2025 An employment sign is shown on a retail store in Carlsbad, California, U.S., May 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Update: Trump proposes $163 billion cut to federal budget
Updated 9:31 a.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration proposed a $163 billion cut to federal spending next year, which would eliminate more than a fifth of the non-milit...
May 02, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump looks on after disembarking from Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. May 1, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Plan to overhaul higher education funding meets U of I opposition
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A plan to overhaul the way Illinois funds public universities is running into stiff opposition from the state's largest higher education institution, the Un...
May 02, 2025 Nick Jones, left, executive vice president and vice president of academic affairs of the University of Illinois System, testifies before a Senate committee in opposition to a bill that would overhaul state funding of public universities. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
