Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
State COVID roundup 2/2: Illinois reaches 1M vax mark
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A total of 32,559 COVID-19 vaccine doses were given between Monday and Tuesday to Illinoisans. With that, the state officially surpassed the mark of one million doses administered...
Feb 02, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/1: almost 1 million doses given
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The state of Illinois as of Tuesday is projected to have administered a million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday reported 14,422 shots...
Feb 01, 2021 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 1/29: more hospital beds open up
PEORIA, Ill. -- Three area residents died between Thursday and Friday from COVID-19, while 116 tested positive. Peoria City/County Health Department said a woman in her 80s from Peoria County died, as...
Jan 29, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 1/29: another record-setting vax day
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- For a third 24-hour period in a row, Illinois between Thursday and Friday broke its own record for COVID-19 doses given. 58,357 people during that time received a shot. Illinois D...
Jan 29, 2021 Midwest Communications
Pekin-based lab detects first COVID variants in Illinois
PEKIN, Ill. -- The first two known Illinois cases of the United Kingdom variant of COVID-19 were detected at Reditus Labs in Pekin. The positive tests came from DuPage County. 12 cases of the variant,...
Jan 29, 2021 Courtesy of Reditus Labs
Caterpillar announces Q4, full-year 2020 numbers
DEERFIELD, Ill. - Caterpillar, Inc. saw a 15% decline in sales and revenue from the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the same time period of 2019, numbers released Friday show. The company took in $...
Jan 29, 2021 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
State COVID roundup 1/28: over 100k tested
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 103 people died from COVID-19 and 4,191 tests between Wednesday and Thursday came back positive, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Labs throughout the state c...
Jan 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
GM aims to end sale of gasoline, diesel-powered cars, SUVs, light trucks by 2035
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co. said Thursday it was setting a goal to sell all its new cars, SUVs and light pickup trucks with zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a dramatic shift by the large...
Jan 28, 2021 REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
May 2020 shooting suspect nabbed
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man wanted in a May 2020 South Peoria shooting has been taken into Peoria Police custody. The incident occurred May 30 in the 2400 block of W. Starr St., near South Metro Market. A m...
Jan 27, 2021 Peoria Police Department
PCSO find missing man dead on Chillicothe property
***UPDATE*** 1/28 4:19 P.M. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has announced Hamm died of exposure to the cold. He said Hamm appeared to have fallen while outside and, for reasons not yet clear, was ...
Jan 27, 2021 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
