Category Archives: Headlines
Natural gas rate increases likely for Ameren, Nicor customers next year
Customers across Illinois could face increased natural gas rates next year, based on proposed decisions in two proceedings before the Illinois Commerce Commission. The regulatory agency, which oversee...
Oct 27, 2025 The Michael A. Bilandic Building, pictured in spring 2024, houses the offices of the Illinois Commerce Commission. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Defense expert: Grayson acted properly | Inside the Courtroom: Sean Grayson trial - Day 6
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - Former Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson has taken the stand and will testify at his own murder trial. That comes after an expert on use of force by police spent all ...
Oct 27, 2025 (Photo courtesy: Sangamon County Jail)
Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino ordered to testify in federal court
CHICAGO - U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who has spent the last 5 weeks running the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz" immigration enforcement campaign in the Ch...
Oct 27, 2025 Three men in Customs and Border Protection uniforms stand on the roof of a Broadview immigration facility taking pictures of the surrounding area on Oct. 9. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
ICYMI: Four members of Illinois GOP candidate Darren Bailey's family killed in helicopter crash
Four members of Illinois Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey's family were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, the campaign announced early Thursday morning. According to the campai...
Oct 24, 2025 Bailey’s son Zachary, his daughter-in-law Kelsey and two grandchildren, 12-year-old Vada Rose and 7-year-old Samuel, died when the helicopter. The couple’s 10-year-old son, Finn, center, was not on board at the time. (Courtesy Bailey campaign)
UPDATED: 'Tactically unsound judgements': Inside the Courtroom: Sean Grayson trial - Day 5
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - Looking at the totality of the circumstances, Sean Grayson made several tactically "unsound" decisions leading up to the deadly shooting of Sonya Massey. And he didn't see or did...
Oct 24, 2025 The Peoria County Courthouse is the site of the murder trial of former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Beth Hundsdorfer)
Habitat for Humanity damaged during attempted break in
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - A Habitat for Humanity store was damaged during an attempted break-in on Thursday. Someone allegedly broke a window at the Habitat for Humanity of McLean County & ReStor...
Oct 24, 2025 (Photo courtesy: McLean County Law and Justice Center)
Fate of Illinois' first-in-the-nation credit card 'swipe fee' ban awaits judge's ruling
CHICAGO - A law that would make Illinois the first jurisdiction in the world to ban financial institutions from charging "interchange fees" on the tax and tip portions of debit and credit card transac...
Oct 24, 2025 : The Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Pritzker forms independent commission to document misconduct of federal agents
CHICAGO - After urging Illinoisians last month to record concerning actions by federal agents, Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order Thursday creating a commission to review documentation submitt...
Oct 24, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker signs an executive order in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 23, creating the Illinois Accountability Commission to document abuses by federal agents. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Maggie Dougherty)
Expert: Grayson didn't follow departmental policies | Inside the Courtroom: Sean Grayson trial - Day 4
UPDATED (5:30 p.m.) - Sean Grayson was not in an imminent threat of harm from Sonya Massey, maintained an expert in police training During a lengthy back and forth with defense attorney Mark Wykoff, r...
Oct 24, 2025 Sean Grayson. (Photo courtesy: Macon County Law Enforcement Center)
New teachers union leaders in Illinois call for tax shift to fund K-12, higher education
SPRINGFIELD - The new leader of the Illinois Federation of Teachers says state lawmakers should consider raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations that have received federal tax breaks und...
Oct 23, 2025 New leaders at the Illinois Federation of Teachers include, from left: Pankaj Sharma, secretary-treasurer; Stacy Davis Gates, president; Cyndi Oberle-Dahm, executive vice president, and John Miller, membership secretary.
