Author Archives: Julia Bradley
CDC guidance more restrictive than White House
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Advice from the nation's top disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions in the coronavirus pandemic included detailed instructive guidance and...
May 13, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Park District cancels summer camps through July 3
PEORIA, Ill. -- Due to challenges associated with COVID-19, the Peoria Park District has made the decision to cancel all summer camp programming scheduled through July 3. "We know that kids and famili...
May 12, 2020 Peoria Park District/Facebook
Fauci to warn nation against premature reopening
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's leading infectious disease expert says he intends to warn the nation Tuesday that "needless suffering and death" will result from a rushed reopening of the economy. ...
May 12, 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arrives to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
PDC resumes bulky waste collection at the curb
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria residents can now resume setting bulky items out at the curb on trash day. Peoria Disposal Company, PDC, has announced that mattresses, old furniture and other bulk items too bi...
May 12, 2020 Peoria Disposal Company
BU introduces ticket initiative for local health-care workers
PEORIA, Ill. -- In honor of central Illinois' health-care workers efforts in the fight against COVID-19, the Bradley University Athletic Department has announced an initiative to show them appreciatio...
May 11, 2020 Bradley University
Self-employed now qualify for unemployment benefits
PEORIA, Ill. -- Beginning Monday, May 11, the self-employed can apply for unemployment benefits from the federal government. Chris Setti, CEO of the Greater Peoria Economic Development Council, told W...
May 11, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Diocese announced successor to Bishop Jenky
THE VATICAN -- The Peoria Catholic Diocese has announced Pope Francis has appointed a Pastor from the Archdiocese of Chicago to become the Coadjutor Bishop of the Peoria Catholic Diocese, and the Dioc...
May 11, 2020 MWC-Photo Provided by Catholic Diocese of Peoria
Comedian Jerry Still dies at 92
NEW YORK (AP) - Comedian Jerry Stiller has died at 92. His son Ben Stiller said the actor died of natural causes in a tweet posted early Monday. Jerry Stiller began his career in the 1950s as the part...
May 11, 2020 In this Feb. 11, 2011, photo, Ben Stiller, left, and his father Jerry Stiller arrive at the Help Haiti benefit honoring Sean Penn hosted by the Stiller Foundation and The J/P Haitian Relief Organization, in New York. Comedian veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
Pritzker defends extended order, faces salon owner lawsuit
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois' governor is defending his stay-at-home order and plans to reopen, saying the state residents will have to change the way things are done until the coronavirus is "eradicated."...
May 10, 2020 Illinois.gov
Trump advisers cite need to stop 'permanent' economic toll
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers are stressing the importance of states getting more businesses and offices to open during the pandemic. Their pitch comes as th...
May 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
