Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, observes action on the Senate floor during the last week of the 2025 legislative session. Harmon was the sponsor of a bill to reform the Prisoner Review Board. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - A Bartonville man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly seriously injuring his own infant child. Gabriel King, 24, faces the single count of aggravated battery against a child in connection with the June 1 incident to the 2-month-old infant. That led to bleeding in his brain, bone fractures and bruis...

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pair of health care-related bills Tuesday that he said would put more controls on the pricing of pharmaceutical drugs sold through insurance plans while expanding insurance coverage for certain kinds of hospital costs. &qu...

(Photo courtesy: Peoria Chiefs/Facebook) PERIA, Illinois (WMBD) - Normal Community graduate and minor-league pitcher in the St. Louis Cardinals franchise Mason Burns was officially promoted to the High-A Peoria Chiefs, according to an announcement Tuesday morning from the club. Burns was drafted by the Cardinals last s...

By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday that former Deputy Gov. Christian Mitchell will be his running mate for the 2026 campaign. Pritzker's selection, made just days after announcing a third campaign for governor, comes from a close circle of trus...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, the Normal Fire Station 2 will be reborn, albeit in a different part of town. The Normal Fire Department is making progress on its $8 million Fire Station Two, located at the intersection of Shephard and Hershey roads, which will be a more modern version of th...

PEKIN, Illinois (WMBD) - Tazewell County just hit a milestone last Friday that the county clerk John Ackerman and his staff have been tracking for a year and a half. Tazewell County was established in 1827. Since its inception, the county has been keeping track of marriage licenses ever since. On Friday, June 27, 2025,...

By SONYA DYMOVA & MAGGIE DOUGHERTY Medill Illinois News Bureau news@capitolnewsillinois.com WOLF LAKE. Ill. - Standing on the edge of a 300-foot limestone bluff in southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest, Machaela Sweeney could thank the perfect words she typed into ChatGPT for bringing her to the unexpected spo...