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CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has issued a “shelter in place” lockdown for the state of Illinois beginning at 5:00 p.m. Saturday, March 21 and lasting through Tuesday, April 7. “...

PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. — The Peoria Heights Village Board has granted temporary emergency powers to Mayor Michael Phelan. This gives him such powers as entering into contracts on his own, employin...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has announced that the deadline for filing U.S. income taxes has been moved from April 15 to July 15. Mnuchin tweeted Thursday morning that at...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Greater Peoria Economic Development Council has created a website to help area business owners maneuver the COVID-19 crisis. The Council’s CEO Chris Setti told WMBD̵...

PARIS (AP) – The U.S. has warned Americans to avoid all international travel and told citizens abroad to return now or face an “indefinite” absence. California’s governor is as...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Tazewell County Health Department has reported five Tri-County food pantries have shut down to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Three of the pantries are in Pekin. The others a...

PEORIA – The Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport began 2020 with two record setting months. January and February provided a promising start to the year for PIA, but the COVID-19 p...

PEORIA, Ill. — Positive COVID-19 cases in the Peoria, Woodford, and Tazewell region went up Thursday to five. A second person has tested positive in Woodford County, the site of the first area p...

PEKIN, Ill. — Lesli Jett, 33, pleads not guilty for the death of a 4-year-old East Peoria boy. Jett appeared in Tazewell County Court Thursday through video chat, and is facing three counts of f...

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday three more people in Illinois have died from COVID-19. One of the three was a Florida woman visiting Sangamon County. The other two deaths were in Cook...