Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The winter storm that slammed most of the United States this week has wreaked havoc on COVID-19 vaccine shipments. The Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed Wednesday onl...

PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University officials have announced they plan to return the institution to full-time traditional learning, complete with regular campus life and extracurricular activities, for ...

EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A plan to upgrade livability in three East Peoria neighborhoods is on the brink of coming to fruition. City council voted unanimously Tuesday night to place a resolution on the ci...

PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County woman has become the area's latest coronavirus casualty. She was in her 70s and her living situation was not reported. The area accumulated 242 new cases according to...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The state of Illinois accounted for 1,348 of the new coronavirus cases between Monday and Tuesday across America. 32 Illinoisans died during that time from the virus. The 40,354 v...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools have announced yet another at-home learning day. PPS determined early Monday afternoon students would not learn Tuesday in person because of forecasted bitterly c...

***UPDATE*** 2/15/21 9:46 A.M. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the inmate found hanging in his cell at the Peoria County Jail as 59-year-old Michael Dyer of Decatur. Harwood said Dy...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyers on Friday said Democrats had provided no evidence the former president incited last month's deadly U.S. Capitol riot and had used his second impeachment t...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County was hit hard by COVID during the Thursday-Friday reporting period, as four residents died. Two women in their 90s from Pekin Manor were among the casualties, as were a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 10% of Illinois has officially gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 shot. A record-setting 95,375 people between Thursday and Friday received a vaccine. 2,598 people during th...