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Pritzker signs executive order regarding "sub-minimum wage" paid to disabled people
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is signing an executive order he says will pay workers with disabilities some of the same wages as the rest of us. Pritzker is ordering state agencies to ...
Oct 04, 2021 State of Illinois
New tools for investigating child exploitation; webinars for parents start Thursday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Attorney General says there is a new way he can increase focus on online child exploitation. Kwame Raoul says there will be a mobile forensic facility that will better...
Oct 04, 2021
Facebook, Instagram appear to partly reconnect after nearly six-hour outage
UPDATED 5:11 P.M. (Reuters) - Facebook and Instagram appeared to be partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into a global outage. Facebook and its WhatsApp a...
Oct 04, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Facebook app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
OSF, Kindred Healthcare approved to jointly own Greater Peoria Specialty Hospital; renovations to begin
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria-based OSF HealthCare is in the midst of expanding its footprint in the city again. OSF and Kentucky-based Kindred Healthcare say the two entities have received regulatory approva...
Oct 04, 2021 OSH HealthCare/Kindred Healthcare
Illinois American Water gives grants to local fire departments
BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A number of Central Illinois fire departments are receiving shares of Illinois American Water's 2021 Firefighter Grant Program, totaling $92,000. Local departments sharing the gran...
Oct 04, 2021
Lindsey Stirling, Harlem Globetrotters coming to Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - Two more big events are coming to the Peoria Civic Center in the coming months. The Civic Center announced Monday that singer and violinist Lindsey Stirling will bring a Christmas-theme...
Oct 04, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
J&J to seek U.S. FDA authorization of booster shot this week - NYT
(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask U.S. federal regulators this week to authorize a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine, the New York Times reported https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021...
Oct 04, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo/File Photo
U.S. Democrats to pare climate, social spending; no clear target
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Congressional Democrats face the hard work of paring back the White House's sweeping infrastructure and social agenda in the week ahead, but have yet to agree on a target size fo...
Oct 04, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden talks to reporters as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi watches after the president met with Democratic lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol to promote his bipartisan infrastructure bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Texas law sparks hundreds of U.S. protests against abortion restrictions
WASHINGTON/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Women marched by the thousands on Saturday on the Supreme Court, the Texas Capitol and cities across the United States to protest increasing state restrictions on a...
Oct 03, 2021 REUTERS/Go Nakamura
Breast cancer survivors celebrated during "More Than Pink" Walk
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - It was a sea of pink and and a celebration of sisterhood at Peoria's Metro Centre for Susan G. Komen's "More Than Pink" walk. Breast cancer survivors came together in person...
Oct 03, 2021 25 News
