Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
State of the race: still too close to call
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Joe Biden pushed closer Thursday to the 270 Electoral College votes he needed to win the White House, securing victories in the "blue wall" battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Mi...
Nov 05, 2020 AP Photo/Evan Vucci
OSF’s Hammerton backs out of Bradley job
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF HealthCare President Tom Hammerton has announced he will not be joining Bradley University as Vice President for Advancement. The university on Thursday morning issued a statement, ...
Nov 05, 2020 Bradley University
Local COVID roundup 11/4: positivity % reaches 10
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria City/County Health Department on Wednesday reported a COVID-19 outbreak at Sharon Healthcare Pines. 40 of Peoria County's 116 new cases came from the facility. Tazewell County r...
Nov 04, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump campaign asking U.S. Supreme Court to halt PA vote counting
WASHINGTON -- The campaign of President Donald Trump announced Wednesday it is asking the U.S.'s highest court to step in and stop more votes from being counted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In...
Nov 04, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Peoria, Tazewell elections chiefs give postmortem
PEORIA, Ill. -- Early on Election Tuesday, electronic pollbooks were delivered to the wrong location, causing a 25-minute delay in voting at Northwest United Methodist Church on War Memorial in Peoria...
Nov 04, 2020 Liberty Systems testing Tazewell County voting machines
(Courtesy of Kevin Bessler/WMBD)
Bustos declares razor-thin victory
MOLINE, Ill. -- With 99% of precincts reporting late Tuesday night, 17th District Rep. Cheri Bustos declared victory over challenger Esther Joy King. At the time of her declaration, the Congresswoman ...
Nov 04, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Pres. Trump vows Supreme Court action
WASHINGTON D.C. -- In an early Wednesday morning speech from the White House, President Donald Trump expressed confidence about his standing in the election, while threatening legal action. "We'll be ...
Nov 04, 2020 MWC-Fox News Photo Credit
Koehler wins state senate race costing nearly $4M
PEORIA, Ill. -- In the most expensive State Senate race of 2020 in all of Illinois, 46th District Senate incumbent Democrat Dave Koehler fended off Republican challenger and Tazewell County Treasurer ...
Nov 04, 2020
Election 2020
PEORIA COUNTY (Full Peoria County Results here) CONSTITUTION BALLOT PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE 1970 ILLINOIS CONSTITUTION Yes 42.66% No 57.34% SENATE REP Mark C. Curran Jr. - 44.79% DEM Richard J. Durb...
Nov 03, 2020 An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A long night, or more, before president is known
WASHINGTON (AP) - There's a good chance that Americans won't know the winner of Tuesday's presidential election while it's still Tuesday - or maybe even Wednesday. Many states made it easier to reques...
Nov 03, 2020
