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2025 Consolidated Primary Election Results
Last update 8:55 P.M. Precincts Reporting = 65/65 Ballots Cast - 12,689 Peoria Mayor (Top 2 move on to April 1st consolidated election) Rita Ali - 51.66% (6,536) John Kelly - 24.67% (3,122) Chuck Gray...
Feb 25, 2025
US House Republicans pass Trump tax cut plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives late on Tuesday advanced President Donald Trump's tax-cut and border agenda, delivering a major boost to his 2025 agenda....
Feb 25, 2025 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a House Republican members conference meeting in Trump National Doral resort, in Miami, Florida, U.S. January 27, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Pritzker positions himself at forefront of Trump opposition by invoking Nazis' rise to power
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A month into President Donald Trump's second term in the White House, Gov. JB Pritzker last week warned that the breakneck pace at which the Trump administr...
Feb 25, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker enters the House chamber on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, for his annual budget address. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Pair charged by Peoria County grand jury in connection to December death of 13-month-old
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted two people for First Degree Murder in connection to the death of a 13-month-old. 27-year-old Nausicca Thomas and and 26-year-old Tasheaunna Willi...
Feb 25, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/Right: Tasheaunna Williams Left: Nausicca Thomas)
US, Ukraine agree to terms of critical minerals deal
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. and Ukraine have agreed on the terms of a draft minerals deal central to Kyiv's push to win Washington's support as President Donald Trump seeks to rapidly end the...
Feb 25, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S., September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
UPDATE: One person injured after crash in Bartonville Tuesday morning
UPDATED 3:06 P.M. BARTONVILLE, Ill. - A man suffered life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle crash in Bartonville Tuesday morning. Bartonville Police says the crash with an ejection happened at ...
Feb 25, 2025 (Bartonville Police via Facebook)
US House Speaker says budget vote may not happen Tuesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said the House may not vote on Tuesday on a budget framework that would be a first step toward enacting President Donald Trump...
Feb 25, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a House Republican members conference meeting in Trump National Doral resort, in Miami, Florida, U.S. January 27, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Police identify four people who died in Bloomington triple murder-suicide
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Bloomington Police say a 33-year-old man fatally shot his girlfriend, her 13-year-old son, and the woman's friend before shooting himself on Sunday morning. Police and the McLean C...
Feb 25, 2025 (Bloomington Police Facebook)
After setback, Musk presses forward with federal worker threats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A defiant threat by Elon Musk warning that federal employees will be given "a second chance" to respond to his email asking them to justify their jobs or risk termination is lik...
Feb 25, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw onstage during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo
UPDATE: No issues as voters head to the polls on Tuesday in Peoria
UPDATED 2:05 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The head of the Peoria County Election Commission says primary voting day is smooth sailing so far. Executive Director Elizabeth Gannon says, as of 1:00 P.M. Tuesday, ...
Feb 25, 2025 Midwest Communications
