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Massive fire destroys two Farmington businesses
FARMINGTON, Ill. -- Two businesses are a total loss after a Monday night fire tore through the structure in Farmington. A Fulton County official told news partner 25 News the fire started in the bar a...
Nov 23, 2021 (25 News)
IDES: No more unemployment benefits on special debit cards
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - If you receive state unemployment benefits, you're not going to get them on a state-issued debit card anymore. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says that's because th...
Nov 22, 2021 Kevin Smith / CC
Bradley hires first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officer
PEORIA, Ill. - On the same day the City of Peoria is announcing its main Diversity Officer, Bradley University is doing the same thing. The University said Monday Dr. Warren Anderson is their first-ev...
Nov 22, 2021 Warren Anderson, Ed.D. (Bradley University)
Princeville Schools go to remote learning due to potential COVID outbreak
PRINCEVILLE, Ill. - A Peoria County school district is going to remote learning until early December, after what might end up being an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in the school. The Princeville School ...
Nov 22, 2021 Princeville School District
Driver to face homicide charges for deaths at Wisconsin Christmas parade
UPDATED 5:28 P.M. WAUKESHA, Wis. (Reuters) -The man accused of deliberately driving his car into a crowded Milwaukee-area Christmas parade over the weekend, killing five people and injuring dozens of ...
Nov 22, 2021 Darrell Brooks poses for a booking photograph at the Milwaukee County Jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. November 3, 2021. Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
Peoria hires Green as Diversity Officer
PEORIA, Ill. - The City of Peoria has hired someone for a $110,000 a year city job, and she's already familiar with city operations. The city says Melodi Green, a Peoria native and attorney, becomes P...
Nov 22, 2021 Melodi Green (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/City of Peoria)
'Mansfield Mondays' may help save Washington's Sunnyland branch library
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A teacher in the Washington School District may very well be on a one-man mission to save the Sunnyland branch of the Washington District Library. Jace Mansfield started "Mansfield ...
Nov 22, 2021 (25 News)
South Side Mission continues its holiday traditions
PEORIA, Ill. -- Volunteers at Peoria's South Side Mission were busy on Monday making pies, cranberry sauce and rolls, and preparing them for delivery. "A few additional things we do, then we get it al...
Nov 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. airlines, airports brace for busy Thanksgiving travel week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines and airports braced for a surge of travelers ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, hoping the weather forecast remains calm as millions more Americans will hit the ro...
Nov 22, 2021 Travelers walk through O'Hare International Airport ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Five dead, more than 40 injured after vehicle plows through Wisconsin parade
WAUKESHA, Wis. (Reuters) - A speeding SUV plowed into dozens of people, including children, during a Christmas parade in a small Wisconsin city on Sunday, leaving a scene of chaos and carnage in its w...
Nov 22, 2021 Police and emergency responders gather after a vehicle plowed through the Christmas Parade, leaving multiple people injured in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. November 21, 2021. Scott Ash-USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS
