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PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria City/County Health Department announced zero new COVID-19 cases Tuesday at the daily news conference. This keeps the local total in the Tri-County area at eight. There ...

CHICAGO, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said that testing is important to understand the outbreak across the state and that some counties in the state are affected more by the virus. The governor sai...

PEORIA, Ill. — If you’re working from home due to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “Shelter in Place” order, your work computer and your network could be at risk. Dave Johnson, with ...

PEORIA, Ill. — Illinois is facing a critical period in its fight against COVID-19. Doug Kasper, Interim section head of infectious disease at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peori...

TOKYO (AP) – The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed until 2021. The International Olympic Committee along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organizers have decided tha...

MAPLETON, Ill. — Caterpillar has temporarily shutdown its Mapleton plant due to a change in customer demand, not due to concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. “We are taking a variety ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Top congressional and White House officials negotiating the nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package say they expect to reach a deal sometime Tuesday. Treasury Secretary S...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county region’s positive COVID-19 case count Monday moved up to eight, from five over the weekend. Two of the new cases were in Peoria, and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump expressed qualms Monday about extending the current 15-day shutdown recommended by the federal government, even as his officials warned that the coronavirus cr...

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday many companies are re-purposing to create PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) products such as face masks and hand sanitizers. The workers at these facil...