Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Region meets mitigation criteria
***UPDATE*** IDPH has announced Region Two will enter mitigation on Wed., Nov. 4. In the coming days, IDPH will continue to track the positivity rate in Region 2 to determine if mitigations can be rel...
Nov 01, 2020 Midwest Communications
Civics 101: role of a circuit clerk
The seat is up for grabs this year. But, what does the job entail? With Election Day quickly approaching, WMBD News is getting a series of civics lessons from Dr. Megan Remmel, Political Science Profe...
Oct 31, 2020 Midwest Communications
Civics 101: what is a county clerk, and why is it a partisan office?
The seat is up for grabs this year. But, what does the job entail? With Election Day quickly approaching, WMBD News is getting a series of civics lessons from Dr. Megan Remmel, Political Science Profe...
Oct 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 10/30: 8% threshold reached
PEORIA, Ill. -- Region Two, of which Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties are all a part, rose Friday to an 8.5% rolling seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate. When a region has been at 8% or higher f...
Oct 30, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
State COVID roundup 10/30: testing pushes 100k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinoisans are being tested for COVID-19 at record numbers, as evidenced by the 95,111 tests administered between Thursday and Friday. The Illinois Department of Public Health sa...
Oct 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Civics 101: State Representative
The seat is up for grabs this year. But, what does the job entail? With Election Day quickly approaching, WMBD News is getting a series of civics lessons from Dr. Megan Remmel, Political Science Profe...
Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker sounds off on IHSA
CHICAGO -- After a tense Wednesday during which the Illinois High School Association announced it would defy orders from the Illinois Department of Public Health and Gov. J.B. Pritzker by going forwar...
Oct 29, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Local COVID roundup 10/29: teetering on mitigation levels
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties belong to Region Two of Illinois, which was one of just two of the state's 11 regions as of Thursday afternoon not under mitigation restrictions...
Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
White Sox reunite with La Russa, hire Hall of Fame manager
CHICAGO (AP) - Tony La Russa, the Hall of Famer who won a World Series with the Oakland Athletics and two more with the St. Louis Cardinals, is returning to manage the Chicago White Sox 34 years after...
Oct 29, 2020 AP Photo/Matt York, File
State COVID roundup 10/29: over 3,000 hospitalized
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- One day after Illinois set a new 24-hour high for COVID-19 cases, it repeated that action. Illinois Department of Public Health reported 6,363 people between Wednesday and Thursda...
Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
