Tim Shelley
Tim Shelley is the News Director at WCBU Peoria Public Radio.
Before venturing into the world of radio, Tim worked as Assignment Editor and later Social Media and Digital Content Manager at WEEK-TV for several years.
Tim was also the editor for three weekly newspapers covering much of Tazewell and Woodford counties.
He was born in Peoria, and is a graduate of East Peoria Community High School, Illinois Central College and Bradley University.
When not covering the news, Tim enjoys playing his guitar, reading up on American and ancient Roman history, and spending time with his friends and family.
Tim also collects the works of Elmer M. King - Peoria history rocks!
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Ninety percent of OSF HealthCare's more than 24,000 employees systemwide are vaccinated against COVID-19. -
The E.D. Edwards coal plant in Bartonville is slated to become a battery energy storage site after it closes next year.
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The newly formed Central Illinois FarmFED Co-op in Logan County met its $100,000 initial fundraising goal in just one month.
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Illinois Secretary of Transportation Omer Osman has called Peoria home for more than 30 years. Gov. JB Pritzker has placed the transportation veteran at the helm of executing the $45 billion Rebuild Illinois plan.
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Illinois' U.S. senators and governor are weighing in on the aftermath of the U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan and the American-backed government's subsequent rapid fall to the Taliban.
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Efforts are underway to create a museum in Woodford County dedicated to the first Black man in Illinois to cast a ballot after the ratification of the 15th Amendment.
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It'll be hot and hazy throughout much of the weekend.
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OSF HealthCare now says it will require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September.
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U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth says Congress needs to get the National Guard reimbursed for the half billion dollars it spent responding to the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill.
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Four Washington, Ill., residents, including three teenagers, are dead after a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Logan County.
