Category Archives: Local News
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
Peoria business runs out of luck against the State of Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. - The lawsuit RC Outfitters Owner and Operator Adam White filed in early May against Gov. J.B. Pritzker in Peoria County has been struck down. White requested a temporary restraining orde...
May 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
East Peoria moving forward with allowing fish processing and freezing
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The East Peoria City Council decided Tuesday night to move forward with allowing Roy Sorce of Sorce Enterprises to benefit from the Asian carp occupying the Illinois River. A chan...
May 19, 2020 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Local COVID roundup 5/19: new death in Woodford
PEORIA, Ill. -- The tri-county death toll from COVID-19 rose Tuesday to 11, with one new death being reported in Woodford County, a 90-year-old female with multiple comorbidities, according to Dr. Gre...
May 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/19: all regions looking able to move to phase three
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. J.B Pritzker said Illinois on Tuesday reached another milestone. Illinois became the number one state in the country for COVID-19 testing per capita, overtaking New York. "Th...
May 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
Tazewell County Dental Center closed
NORTH PEKIN, Ill. -- The Tazewell County Health Department Dental Center has been permanently closed. In a statement released Tuesday, the health department said the closure is effective immediately. ...
May 19, 2020
GOP: Graduated tax 'cash grab' will stifle pandemic recovery
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Republicans are demanding a vote in the General Assembly on removing from the fall ballot a proposed graduated income tax structure, saying the state's pandemic-pilla...
May 19, 2020
Pritzker staying with the state's plan
CHICAGO - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says his regional plan still stands. During the past few weeks, 11 local counties, including Peoria, provided the governor with proposed plans that provided n...
May 18, 2020
