Category Archives: Local News
State COVID roundup 5/28: Pritzker addresses phase three of Restore Illinois
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Illinois has surpassed 5,000 deaths related to COVID-19. Dr. Ngozi Ezike with the Illinois Department of Public Health announced an additional 1,527 new cases of COVID-19, bringing th...
May 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Par-A-Dice employees facing possible layoffs
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Layoffs are looming for employees of East Peoria's Par-A-Dice Casino. According to a letter sent to current employees, Boyd Gaming said between 25-60% of Par-A-Dice workers could ...
May 28, 2020 25 News
Violence again rocks Minneapolis after man's death; 1 killed
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Protests rocked Minneapolis for the second straight night Wednesday after a man's death in police custody. One person was killed in what police were investigating as a homicide amid...
May 28, 2020 Demonstrators gather during a protest Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Peoria crews battle garage fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 2:45 a.m. Thursday to the 200 block of NE Rock Island Avenue on reports of a garage fire. Crews found a two-stall detached garage fully engu...
May 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Illinois comptroller says legislators won't get pay raises
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza says the state's legislators will not be getting raises in the next budget year, which begins July 1. Mendoza made her decision known in a ...
May 28, 2020
Local COVID roundup 5/27: Tazewell County reports new COVID related death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County is reporting an additional death related to COVID-19, a man in his 90's. The man did not live in a long term care facility before the diagnosis, but was a part of an ou...
May 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/27: Pritzker praises Illinois National Guard
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- Pritzker held his daily COVID-19 daily press conference downstate in East St. Louis to praise the work the Illinois National Guard does with drive-thru testing sites. Pritzker ...
May 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
2 U.S. astronauts arrive at launch pad for SpaceX launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - With thunderstorms threatening a delay, two NASA astronauts climbed aboard a SpaceX rocket ship Wednesday for liftoff on a history-making flight that was seen as a giant le...
May 27, 2020 (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Floodwall remains on standby on Peoria's riverfront
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 2,000-foot sandbag wall on Peoria's Riverfront was put up last week to keep the Illinois River's floodwaters at bay. The river crested last Friday at 27.91 feet, but a flood warning ...
May 27, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Jeremy Scott
Man falls 125 feet from Brimfield water tower
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man is in the hospital after falling 125 feet from a water tower in Brimfield. The man is a 19-year-old male who worked for the painting company, Maguire Iron Inc. -- Water Tower Exp...
May 27, 2020
