Category Archives: Local News
Illinois unemployment rate drops slightly as state slowly comes out of COVID restrictions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois's unemployment rate dropped an even two percentage points from April to May, 17.2% to 15.2%. Thursday's report from the Illinois Department of Employment Security showed ...
Jun 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Heart of Illinois Fair postponed
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Heart of Illinois Fair Board of Directors have announced on the fair's Facebook page that they have decided to postpone the 2020 Heart of Illinois Fair. The HOI Fair was set to tak...
Jun 18, 2020 (Heart of Illinois Face Facebook)
Car crashes into Pekin storefront
PEKIN, Ill. -- Illinois State Police and Pekin Police were called to the Pekin Gun and Sporting Goods store, located at 281 Derby Street, Thursday morning. A car apparently crashed into the front of t...
Jun 18, 2020
1.5 million Americans file for unemployment benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) - About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some peo...
Jun 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Illinois offers $900M in community and business grants
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. J-B Pritzker announced on Wednesday $900 million in grants for Illinois communities and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pritzker said for many people, weatherin...
Jun 18, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Northwoods Mall offering free drive-in movie experience
PEORIA, Ill. -- Northwoods Mall in Peoria is turning an empty parking lot into a drive-in theater beginning this weekend through July 11. Free family-friendly movies will be shown each Friday and Satu...
Jun 18, 2020 (Northwoods Mall Facebook)
Officer who shot Rayshard Brooks charged with felony murder
ATLANTA (AP) - The Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after the fleeing man pointed a stun gun in his direction will be charged with felony murder and 10 other charges, a pro...
Jun 17, 2020 (Atlanta Police Department via AP)
State COVID roundup 6/17: all regions meeting criteria to advance
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Nearly 30,000 tests for COVID-19 were taken from Tuesday to Wednesday at labs across Illinois, with 546 coming back positive. There have been 87 deaths reported over that same 24-...
Jun 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 6/17: Tazewell Co. woman dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County woman in her 80s is the area's most recent COVID-19 victim to succumb to the illness. Her death, reported Wednesday, brings Tazewell's death count to 7 and gives the ...
Jun 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Body found in drainage ditch in Washington ID'ed
WASHINGTON, Ill. -- A body found Wednesday morning in Washington has been identified. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley said 34-year-old Kyle McMurtrey was pronounced dead at 10:15. Washington Po...
Jun 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
