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EAST PEORIA, Ill. — A longstanding East Peoria code outlawing for-profit street fairs could soon be changed. The code currently states the only legal street fairs within city limits are ones of ...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria City, a USL League Two soccer team that was set to begin play in the summer of 2020, has announced the inaugural season will be postponed for a second time. “With the...

***UPDATED*** 4/20/21 3:30 P.M. MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter in the deadly a...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria City/County Health Department Tuesday reported six new area deaths due to COVID-19. Peoria County reported two deaths; a female in her 80s and a male in his 70s with co...

UPDATE 4/21/21 2:15 P.M. — John W. Beck was arrested Wednesday morning at a hotel in Springfield, Ill. at approximately 11:30 a.m. for a Livingston County warrant for Armed Robbery and a Departm...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Tuesday reported the state’s seven-day statewide positivity rate is down to 4.5%. Last Wednesday, the positivity rate wa...

PEORIA, Ill. — With a positivity rate of 12%, Peoria County has more new cases of COVID-19 than any other area of Illinois. Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University of Illinois College of Medicine i...

(Reuters) – Everyone in United States aged 16 years and above is now eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday. People aged 16 y...

PEORIA, Ill. - For the second year in a row, the traditional "Red, White, and Boom" event will not happen on the Fourth of July. Organizers said the current state of COVID-19 played a role. “It&...

Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a historic landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential el...