Category Archives: Local News
Businesses that defy stay-at-home order to face misdemeanor
CHICAGO (AP) - Businesses that defy Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order could face a misdemeanor under emergency rules his administration has filed. The change took effect Friday when the...
May 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/17: another decrease in positive cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - For a third day in a row, state COVID-19 numbers on Sunday went down. 1,734 was the reported number, down from Friday's 2,432 and Saturday's 2,088. There were 51 newly-reported dea...
May 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 5/17: ICU bed capacity increases slightly
PEORIA, Ill. -- Having passed May's midway mark, the Peoria City/County Health Department continues to monitor the region's COVID-19 statistics to see whether the area will be able to move to phase th...
May 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Governor says move to phase three looking possible
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,088 new cases of coronavirus from Friday to Saturday. There were 74 new deaths, one of which occurred at the Illinois Manteno V...
May 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
Recovery rate remains same as local leaders await Pritzker input
PEORIA, Ill. -- Five new cases of COVID-19 were reported Saturday in the tri-county area, bringing the total to 233. Three of the new cases were reported in Peoria County, giving the county 156. The o...
May 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
Foot chase, shootout lead to one death
PEORIA, Ill. -- One shooting suspect is dead and another is at-large after a Friday night shootout with Peoria Police. Officers responded just before 10:00 to multiple calls of multiple shots fired in...
May 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
J.C Penney pushed into bankruptcy
NEW YORK (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic has pushed troubled department store chain J.C. Penney into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth major retailer to meet that fate. As part of its reorganiza...
May 15, 2020 (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Local COVID cases rise
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county went up Friday to 228 total cases of COVID-19. Peoria reported 153 confirmed cases, Tazewell reported 60, and Woodford remained at 15. The death...
May 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
Illinois passes 90,000 cases of COVID-19 as Peoria gets set for new testing site
CHICAGO -- Illinois has reached a total of 90,369 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 2,432 new cases reported. There were 130 new deaths reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the state's total to 4,0...
May 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump announces Operation Warp Speed for COVID-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON -- From the Rose Garden Friday, President Donald Trump announced Operation Warp Speed, a plan to find a vaccine for coronavirus. Trump said he hopes a vaccine could be developed by the end ...
May 15, 2020 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
