Category Archives: National
Work beginning on Western Ave. face-lift
PEORIA, Ill. -- Road work is under way on Western Ave. in Peoria for a major project that will completely reconstruct the road. The stretch of road on Western that stretches about half a mile, between...
Mar 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden says stimulus checks will be sent out soon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Senate passage of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill means that $1,400 payments to most Americans will start to go out this mo...
Mar 07, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden makes remarks from the White House, while U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on, after his coronavirus pandemic relief legislation passed in the Senate, in Washington, U.S. March 6, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott
Senate passes $1.9T COVID-19 bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Saturday passed President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in a party-line vote after an all-night session that saw Democrats battling among themselv...
Mar 06, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A man makes his way past the U.S. Capitol on the day the House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation to provide $1.9 trillion in new coronavirus relief in Washington, U.S., February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Peoria Riverfront Museum reopening Saturday with new exhibitions
PEORIA, Ill. -- After being shut down in November due to COVID-19 mitigations, the Peoria Riverfront Museum will reopen Saturday, March 6. When visitors return to the museum, there will be new exhibit...
Mar 05, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Biden says it's a 'big mistake' for states to lift mask mandates
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said decisions to end the required wearing of masks - such as those by governors of Texas and Mississippi - amounted to "Neanderthal thinking...
Mar 03, 2021 Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. House panel reissues subpoena for Trump's tax records
(Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel has reissued a subpoena seeking Donald Trump's tax and financial records, saying in a memo made public on Tuesday it needs the documents to address "c...
Mar 02, 2021 REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Senate to debate on COVID-19 bill this week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will start debating President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday after Democrats ba...
Mar 01, 2021 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
State COVID roundup 3/1: More than 50,000 vaccines administered Sunday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported 50,897 vaccines were administered Sunday in the state, bringing the state to more than 2,750,000 overall. The preli...
Mar 01, 2021 Midwest Communications
Fauci endorses all three approved vaccines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, said on Sunday he would take the newly approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, as he encouraged Americans t...
Feb 28, 2021 FILE PHOTO: NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci addresses the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Third COVID-19 vax approved
(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the vacci...
Feb 28, 2021 Vials of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate are seen in an undated photograph. Johnson & Johnson/Handout via REUTERS.
