Category Archives: Local News
Peoria's new fire station nearing completion
PEORIA, Ill. -- In a few months, construction on Peoria's new Fire Station 4 will wrap up, and it will honor the River City's first black fireman. It's a project three years in the making, and Assista...
Jan 13, 2022 (25 News)
LaHood recognizes late former City Clerk on House floor
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former Peoria City Clerk Mary Haynes is being remembered on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. "Mary was a devoted mother and grandmother, and one of the kindest people...
Jan 12, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Gary Deiters Funeral Home
Blood center helps address potential emergencies requiring blood
PEORIA, Ill. - Blood supplies, no matter where you donate to, are low due in part to COVID-19 and in part due to the winter months. But it's the sort of thing "ImpactLife" -- formerly the Mississippi ...
Jan 12, 2022 ImpactLife
Pritzker: Hospitals are getting temporary help to address COVID-caused short-staffing
CHICAGO, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker has a message for what he says are continually-tired healthcare workers in the state still treating patients while in some cases themselves battling COVID-19. Help...
Jan 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
OSF: 'Influx' of patients because of competing hospital closure
GALESBURG, Ill. - Peoria-based OSF HealthCare says, in a sense, they had a fear the closure of a competing hospital in one of their areas might happen. OSF says Saint Mary Medical Center in Galesburg ...
Jan 12, 2022 Courtesy Rick Heath
Tazewell County State's Attorney to run for judge
PEKIN, Ill. - The Tazewell County State's Attorney is trying again to run for a higher public office. Stu Umholtz is running for a seat on the bench in the local 10th Judicial Circuit, looking to repl...
Jan 12, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Komen's MORE THAN PINK Walk moving back to Mother's Day weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- Susan G. Komen Memorial announced on Wednesday that it's Peoria MORE THAN PINK Walk will officially return to the Saturday before Mother's Day this year. The event will kick off at the...
Jan 12, 2022 (Susan G. Komen Memorial)
Chicago schools reopen after teachers agree to end COVID-19 walkout
(Reuters) -Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest U.S. education district, resumed in-person classes on Wednesday after a union backed ending a walkout over COVID-19 fears in an agreement it said w...
Jan 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Darwin Elementary after Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, said it would cancel classes since the teachers' union voted in favor of a return to remote learning, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
Illinois launches new vaccine campaign
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Illinois is launching a new COVID-19 vaccine campaign in hopes of reaching people who are still on the fence about getting the shots. The initial rollout features four videos from Ill...
Jan 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
Pritzker issues COVID-19 exclusion order for schools
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. --Gov. JB Pritzker issued a new executive order Tuesday regarding exclusion from school for students and staff who test positive for COVID-19. The order also addresses protocols for ...
Jan 12, 2022 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
