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WASHINGTON, Ill. – Washington Mayor Gary Manier says Five Points is a "crown jewel" to the city. "It brings people here, it brings the arts alive and well in our community, with the theater, the...

UPDATED 9:11 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Peoria has recorded its first homicide of the year, just four days in. Harwood says a man in his 30’s was pronounc...

PEORIA, Ill. – A Wisconsin man was arrested early Thursday morning in Peoria after reportedly being found with a stolen vehicle and weapon. Illinois State Police say a traffic stop of a Blue Dod...

PEKIN, Ill. – Repair work to the Avanti's Sports Dome in Pekin could be occurring in the near future. City Manager John Dossey tells 25 News that discussions have occurred on a path forward to r...

MORTON, Ill. – Multiple promotions have occurred in the Morton Police Department, one of which is a new police chief. Shawn Darche was sworn in as the new Chief of Police Tuesday. He was appoint...

CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan won't be spending his 82nd birthday in a federal courtroom this spring after a judge on Wednesday granted his requ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) – The troubled state agency charged with the protection of abused and neglected children will have new leadership in the new year. Gov. JB Pritzker anno...

PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria man is going to prison after he pleaded guilty to the single count of Dissemination of Child Pornography a grand jury charged him with last year. Peoria County Court reco...

CHICAGO, Ill. – There's more people in the state of Illinois than originally thought. Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday that a request to include nearly 47,000 people in population esti...

PEORIA, Ill. – A relatively new state law was supposed to help local school districts with security. Instead, it created another unfunded mandate. The law was to provide state grant money to sch...