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Peoria International Airport prepared for busy Thanksgiving travel holiday
PEORIA, Ill. - Jennifer Bernitt is looking forward to escaping the cold weather of Illinois during the Thanksgiving holiday. "We're just looking for a nice flight. We like to fly together, my daughter...
Nov 27, 2024 Travelers wait in line at Peoria International Airport on November 27th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'You know why I'm interested': Wiretaps, secretly recorded videos show Madigan recruiting business to his law firm
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - For the second time in the span of seven months, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called up Chicago Ald. Danny Solis after reading about a propos...
Nov 27, 2024 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Oct. 21 after opening statements in his federal corruption trial. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
New parking, development in the works at Peoria's Warehouse District
PEORIA, Ill. - A section of downtown Peoria that's been vacant for over 100 years, is finally being redeveloped. In an area behind WTVP-TV, Peoria's public television station, the former rail yard for...
Nov 27, 2024 A new parking lot is coming to Peoria's Warehouse District. The area being redeveloped once was the rail yard for the Rock Island Depot. (25 News)
US weekly jobless claims decline further
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell again last week, but many laid-off workers are experiencing long bouts of joblessness, keeping the...
Nov 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO:m Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File photo
Free Thanksgiving meals available in Peoria, on Thursday
PEORIA Ill. - Locals will be able to get free Thanksgiving meals, in Peoria, on Thursday. Street Family Club is sponsoring a free, walk-in meal for anyone needing food, at the First Covenant Church. T...
Nov 27, 2024 (Courtesy of South Side Mission)
Trump chooses US COVID policy critic Bhattacharya to lead NIH
(Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Stanford academic and U.S. COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the country's top public funder of me...
Nov 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington, DC, U.S. on November 13, 2024. ALLISON ROBBERT/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Trump taps Jamieson Greer as US trade representative as ramps up tariff plans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose trade lawyer Jamieson Greer as his new U.S. trade representative, elevating a key veteran of his first-term trade war against China ...
Nov 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Chief of Staff of United States Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, takes part in a meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) of APEC ahead of November Presidential summit, at the Hotel Sheraton Miramar in Vina del Mar, Chile May 17, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect, civilians head back to south Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) -A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah came into effect on Wednesday after both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the U.S. and France, a rare victory for...
Nov 27, 2024 A man waves a Lebanese flag as he stands amidst the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes, after a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed group Hezbollah took effect at 0200 GMT on Wednesday after U.S. President Joe Biden said both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the United States and France, in Tyre, Lebanon, November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Limestone Community High School employee ordered to remain in jail
UPDATED: 12:50PM PEORIA Ill. - The man accused of having inappropriate relations with a Limestone high school student will stay in jail until his trial. 37-year-old Ronnie Baskin was indicted Tuesday ...
Nov 26, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria man indicted for fatal shooting in August
PEORIA Ill. - The man who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend in Peoria, in August of this year, was indicted Tuesday by a Peoria County Grand Jury. 43-year-old Stevie Linwood appeared in court T...
Nov 26, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
