Tim Shelley
Tim Shelley is the Assignment Editor and Digital 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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Tazewell County judge Chris Doscotch approved Thursday an agreement to place Pekin-based Reditus Laboratories in a receivership.
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Police officers might not be the only people to show up to an emergency call in Galesburg. Depending on the situation, a dispatcher may also now send out a behavioral health co-responder.
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U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a noted critic of former President Donald Trump, is calling it quits rather than vying against U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood in a Republican primary next year.
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A student organization plans to create landmarks to honor Galesburg's "Boxcar People" -- the immigrants who built the railroads up in the early 20th…
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The museum is reviewing and removing some artifacts as part of a consultation process with the tribes whose ancestors are buried there.
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Governor J.B. Pritzker is setting an ambitious goal to get 750,000 electric vehicles on Illinois roadways by 2030. To make that happen, state…
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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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A doctor at the OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria says she's concerned about how the upcoming fall and winter might play out with the unusual recent surge in pediatric respiratory illnesses.
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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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OSF HealthCare now says it will require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September.