Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 5/21: new testing site ready to go
PEORIA, Ill. -- 83.7% of tri-county coronavirus cases have recovered since testing began. This is according to Peoria City/County Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson, who said Thursday's total COV...
May 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/21: new funding to benefit domestic violence survivors
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday the state will receive an additional $1.3 million via the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act that will be used for survivors ...
May 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Chillicothe residents sandbagging along the river
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. -- Floodwaters are high on River Beach Drive in Chillicothe. People who live along the Illinois River pretty much know the drill. On Thursday, flooding on River Beach Drive had reach...
May 21, 2020
Over 2 million Americans apply for unemployment benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two m...
May 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
IL lawmakers, 6-feet apart, catch up on delayed work
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois General Assembly has convened in Springfield for the first time in 10 weeks, desks spaced apart and most members wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. ...
May 21, 2020
Boy dies in Peoria East Bluff Shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A child has died of a gunshot wound after a Wednesday afternoon incident in the East Bluff. Peoria Police responded to a residence in the 2300 block of N. Maryland after 4 p.m., on an i...
May 20, 2020
Local COVID roundup 5/20: four out of every five cases recovered
PEORIA, Ill. -- While the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county region's positive coronavirus case count rose Wednesday to 250, the recovery rate since testing began hit the 80% mark. 12% of cases were ...
May 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/20: 'Restore' revisions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Some edits to the Restore Illinois plan will allow for a quicker reopening of certain industries beginning in phase three of the plan, expected to take effect May 29 across the st...
May 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Public Works busy building flood wall on the riverfront
PEORIA,Ill. -- The Illinois River is still rising. Peoria Public Works Department and Flood Fighters spent most of the day Tuesday constructing a six foot, 1,250 foot long ring of sandbags along the b...
May 20, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Jeremy Scott
Police arrest 2 suspects related to a shooting Monday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Two men were taken into custody Tuesday in relation a shooting on Monday that left one man in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the chest. Members of the Target Offender Unit c...
May 20, 2020 Peoria Police Department
