Category Archives: Top Stories
Illinois adds 19,000 jobs in June, sees unemployment at near pre-pandemic levels
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Analysts say the state of Illinois' job market remains strong despite other economic strains for state residents, including pressure from inflation. The latest report from the Ill...
Jul 23, 2022 Midwest Communications
Ukraine says Russian missiles hit Black Sea port
KYIV (Reuters) -Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Ukraine's port of Odesa on Saturday, a day after Russia and Ukraine signed a deal to reopen Black Sea ports to resume grain exports, the Ukrainia...
Jul 23, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with government members via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia March 23, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
Secretary of State extends license expiration dates again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Time is running out -- for real, this time -- if you need to get your drivers license or state I.D. card in Illinois. Expiration dates had been extended to the end of July. But, Se...
Jul 22, 2022 (Illinois Secretary of State)
State: New COVID case numbers lower, but community spread increases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting confirmed new COVID-19 cases being a little lower than the week before, but concern remains. The state says 32,268 new cases w...
Jul 22, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
Discount retailer coming to Peoria, Pekin
PEORIA, Ill. - A national discount retailer that's quickly expanding will open up one location in Peoria soon, and one in Pekin not long after that. "Ollie's Bargain Outlet" will open in the Willow Kn...
Jul 22, 2022 Isaac Wedin / CC
WWE chief Vince McMahon to retire
(Reuters) - World Wrestling Entertainment Inc's Vince McMahon said on Friday he will retire as the company's chief executive and chairman, barely a month after stepping back from those roles due to an...
Jul 22, 2022 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff / CC
Police Chief: Three illegal guns seized, six arrests made during special Anti-Violence detail
PEORIA, Ill. - It's been awhile since Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria has talked about any Special Enforcement Details related to his ongoing Anti-Violence Initiative. But, as it turns out, anothe...
Jul 22, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump ex-adviser Bannon convicted of contempt of U.S. Congress
UPDATED 2:53 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Steve Bannon, a key associate of former President Donald Trump and an influential figure on the American right, was convicted on Friday of contempt of Congress ...
Jul 22, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump's White House chief strategist Steve Bannon departs after he was found guilty during his trial on contempt of Congress charges for his refusal to cooperate with the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., July 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Economy impacting Porch Pantry Peoria's donations, help needed
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's "Porch Pantry" is bare. The effort started on the porch of Charles and Kelli Martin's West Bluff home near Ellis and Elizabeth is seeing even more activity now than they did at...
Jul 22, 2022 (File-25 News)
Biden improving as mild COVID symptoms persist, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's symptoms from COVID-19 symptoms have improved, his doctor said on Friday, one day after Biden tested positive for the virus as a highly contagious sub...
Jul 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarkson climate change and renewable energy at the site of the former Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Massachusetts, U.S., July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
