Molly Hughes
CorrespondentMolly Hughes is a correspondent at WCBU. She joined the staff in 2026.
Molly is a journalist and media educator based in Central Illinois. She holds an M.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in English with a minor in political science from Worcester State University in Massachusetts.
Her reporting has appeared at CU-CitizenAccess, InvestigateMidwest and the Champaign News-Gazette across print and digital platforms.
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U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen has a message about what Democrats should run on this November — groceries, gas prices, and the doctor's bill. -
Congressman Eric Sorensen, D-Ill., doesn't want to block data centers from coming to Illinois. He also doesn't want them arriving without conditions. He's worried some data center developers will try to cut corners to get there. -
A good election, Jessily Joseph will tell you, is a boring one. "You don't want to be noteworthy," said Joseph, who was appointed executive director of the Peoria County Election Commission on May 21. -
The Tazewell County Board voted Wednesday to freeze County Clerk John Ackerman's salary at $101,069 for the next four years, rejecting a 3% annual raise in a meeting that became a prolonged public airing of grievances. -
The city's residential Tax Increment Financing program allows people who build new homes in certain districts to get the cost of their lot paid back over 10 years through the increased property taxes the new home generates. -
For the first two decades Dan Conlin owned the Jukebox Comedy Club, the money from the previous week's shows paid for the next one. Shows, bills, another week, another show. Then came the pandemic. -
A Peoria Public Schools teacher has brought home a $10,000 grant to study the chemistry and history of chocolate — and she's putting her students to work on the research. -
There's a life-size dollhouse you can walk into. A row of vintage arcade cabinets, fully playable. LEGO bricks, Lincoln Logs and every generation of Mr. Potato Head are lined up side by side. -
The City of Peoria has recorded three homicides so far in 2026, compared with two at the same point in 2025. Just one of those cases has been solved. The number of shooting incidents and gunshot victims has held steady compared with the same period last year, according to a new report from the Peoria Police Department. -
The Peoria City Council on Tuesday approved the first step toward a $2.5 million financing package for the Twin Towers Place condominium association, deferred a contentious liquor license application for a grocery store, and passed a resolution to place a time capsule in City Hall's cornerstone.
