Category Archives: Local News
Pritkzer: $4.6 billion in shortfall projected for 2020
CHICAGO -- The state of Illinois will have a projected $2.7 billion shortfall in fiscal year 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis. It is projected that in fiscal year 2021 that number will rise to $4.6 bil...
Apr 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
Ag industry hit hard by COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- Due to hundreds of cases of COVID-19 at the nation's meatpacking plants, several have had to close down operations. Deloss Jahnke, with Illinois RFD, has said in some cases, there are ...
Apr 15, 2020
Shots fired during home invasion
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 10:25 p.m. Tuesday to an apartment building in the 5800 block of Rosewood Drive. Peoria Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said the subjects kicked ...
Apr 15, 2020
With commerce frozen, retail sales plunge unprecedented 8.7%
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. retail sales plummeted 8.7% in March, a record drop as the viral outbreak closed down thousands of stores and shoppers stayed home. Sales fell sharply across many categories: Au...
Apr 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
Illinois attorney general warns about stimulus scams
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois' Attorney General Kwame Raoul is warning the public about scams related to stimulus payments coming from the federal government. The first wave of payments is going out. ...
Apr 15, 2020 MWC-Scam Graphic credit: University of Illinois Extension.
City Council learns impacts on budget due to COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City Council learned Tuesday night how much the coronavirus pandemic will impact the city's budget. City Manager Patrick Urich said the budget is no longer balanced due to C...
Apr 14, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
PIA gets big federal help
PEORIA, Ill. -- General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport has received north of $6 million through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act. The federal grant purp...
Apr 14, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Trump halting funding to the World Health Organization
WASHINGTON D.C. -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday the Trump Administration has been instructed to halt funding with the World Health Organization. Trump said WHO was opposed to suspend travel fro...
Apr 14, 2020 Midwest Communications
Three new cases of COVID-19 in Tri-County area
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City/County Health Department Tuesday announced three new cases of COVID-19 in the Tri-County area. There are now 31 cases in Peoria County, 21 cases in Tazewell County, and ...
Apr 14, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker says Illinois is bending the curve
CHICAGO -- The doubling rate in Illinois has substantially increased since social distancing measures have been put in place, according to Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Pritzker also said that the mortality rat...
Apr 14, 2020 Midwest Communications
