Ryan Denham
Content DirectorRyan is an award-winning journalist and digital strategist. He joined WGLT full-time in 2017 as Digital Content Director and became interim Content Director at WCBU and WGLT in 2025.
Ryan has earned a National Murrow Award, a national Public Media Journalists Association award, several Regional Murrow Awards, and multiple Crystal Mic Awards from the Illinois News Broadcasters Association, among other station and team-based honors.
Ryan started his career as a copy editor and later business and city government reporter at The Pantagraph in 2006. He later worked for WJBC radio in Bloomington and for Illinois State's University Marketing and Communications [UMC] and Web and Interactive Communications [WEB] offices.
He lives in Normal with his wife, Therese, and two children. You can contact Ryan at rmdenha@ilstu.edu or (309) 438-5426.
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A 62-year-old man is dead after a house fire Tuesday on Old Galena Road near Chillicothe. It's the second fatal fire in the area in the past week. -
A nun with years of health care executive experience has been named OSF HealthCare's president as a new leadership team prepares to take over in April. -
The incident happened around 5:50 p.m. Friday in the 2300 block of Washington Road between Meadow Lane and Briargate Road, near city limits between East Peoria and Washington. -
The ICE agent who shot and killed a woman in Minnesota this week is a 2001 Peoria Richwoods graduate, WCBU has learned through an examination of school and court records. -
A $1 million grant will help a company start making popcorn in an expansion that will employ 40 people in Deer Creek, a small town between Peoria and Bloomington-Normal. -
The public is invited to town hall meetings next week to meet the two finalists to become the next superintendent of Peoria Public Schools. -
Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties are included in a winter weather advisory that lasts from 3 p.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service. The hazardous conditions could impact the Thursday evening commute. -
Authorities say a 54-year-old man has died from his self-inflicted gunshot wound during a “domestic situation” in Woodford County that left the man’s girlfriend seriously injured. -
Authorities are investigating a "domestic situation" in Woodford County on Saturday that sent two people to the hospital with gunshot wounds.
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Prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old babysitter with murder in connection with the death of an 18-month-old Peoria boy who showed signs of abuse.
