Author Archives: Julia Bradley
CityLink closes Transit Center, reduces route service
PEORIA, Ill. -- CityLink is reducing its fixed route bus service effective Thursday, March 19. The Transit Center lobby, located at 401 SW Adams, has also been closed until further notice. CityLink's ...
Mar 19, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
Trump's $1T plan to stabilize economy hit by virus
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials are focusing on the Trump administration's $1 trillion plan to stabilize a national economy reeling from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic endang...
Mar 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
ICC closed for semester due to virus concerns
PEORIA, Ill. -- There will be no more in-person classes this semester at Illinois Central College. ICC officials said the uncertainty and concern of the spread of COVID-19 around the world and locally...
Mar 19, 2020 (Illinois Central College Facebook)
Bustos tours OSF's Digital Pandemic Response Center
PEORIA, Ill. -- OSF HealthCare demonstrates digital response to COVID-19. Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-17) was at OSF's Jump Trading Simulation Center and Education Center Wednesday to learn...
Mar 18, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
US, Canada working on mutual ban on nonessential travel
TORONTO (AP) - A Canadian official says Canada and the United States are working out the details of a mutual ban on nonessential travel between the two countries amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The...
Mar 18, 2020 Vehicles move across the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor, Ontario into Detroit shown from Detroit, Monday, March 16, 2020. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is closing his country's borders to anyone not a citizen or a permanent resident or American amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
PPD suspends lobby services
PEORIA, Ill. -- In an attempt to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and in observation of social distancing, the Peoria Police Department has suspended its lobby services effective immediately. Su...
Mar 18, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
World virus infections hit 200,000; Borders jammed in Europe
BERLIN (AP) - Desperate travelers in cars and trucks are choking European borders. They have created traffic jams miles long as they sought to get back home before borders slammed shut. Truckers are t...
Mar 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Plenty of passengers flying out of PIA
PEORIA, Ill. -- Don't cancel your vacation just yet. Fears over how long the coronavirus pandemic will last have some travelers worried about scheduling spring and summer vacations. But, Peoria's Dire...
Mar 17, 2020 (flypia.com)
East Peoria Police modify call response due to COVID-19
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The East Peoria Police Department is modifying response to some calls. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, East Peoria Police Deputy Chief Rich Brodrick said, if a call for police ca...
Mar 17, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Illinois election still on, despite virus concerns
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the primary election in Illinois will proceed despite a spreading COVID-19 and new federal suggestions that gatherings of 10 or more people be avoided....
Mar 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
