Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
East Peoria Council approves traffic project
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Motorists going through East Peoria will soon experience some minor inconveniences as traffic work gets underway. Commissioners voted unanimously at Tuesday night's City Council me...
Jul 21, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
State COVID roundup 7/21: two facilities experience outbreaks
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A COVID-19 outbreak at one mental health facility and at one correctional facility have contributed to the state's latest case count. The Illinois Department of Public Health repo...
Jul 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 7/21: two percent of local cases hospitalized
PEORIA, Ill. -- After a decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the weekend brought the Peoria region's rolling 28-day hospitalization rate down, the Tuesday report showed a slight increase from Mon...
Jul 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 7/20: back over 1,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After a day that broke a streak of consecutive days with over 1,000 cases of COVID-19, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Monday's count was 1,173. There were six C...
Jul 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 7/20: woman in her hundreds dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria County centenarian lost her life over the weekend to COVID-19. The woman in her 100s was not a long-term care facility resident. Alongside the sad news of the area's 41st COVI...
Jul 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker, local leaders push student work placement program
PEORIA, Ill. -- Gov. J.B. Pritzker paid a visit Monday to Manual High School, where he helped local leaders kick off the Peoria Public Schools Summer Youth Employment Program. The system is designed t...
Jul 20, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Suspect on the loose following Sat. night shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A suspect has been identified in a Saturday night shooting on Hightower in Peoria. Officers were called just after 9 to the 700 block of Hightower on reports a man was shot in the face ...
Jul 19, 2020
Riverfront fracas results in 13 people shot
PEORIA, Ill. - 13 people were shot early Sunday morning at Peoria's Riverfront. Peoria Police responded at 4:41 a.m. to Water and Hamilton on reports of a large fight. Upon arrival, officers discovere...
Jul 19, 2020 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
ComEd to pay $200M over bribery, Illinois speaker implicated
CHICAGO (AP) - Electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery scheme that implicates Illinois House Speaker Michael Madig...
Jul 17, 2020 FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaks to reporters in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)
Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won't retire
WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who spe...
Jul 17, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
