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CHICAGO — During a visit to a mobile testing site at Coles Elementary School on Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker announced the expansion of the state’s mobile testing operation with twelve ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported its largest 24-hour increase of statewide COVID-19 cases in over a month. 980 was the highest number since the 1,15...

PEORIA, Ill. — A local increase of 15 COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday brought the area’s total to 772. Peoria County saw the biggest jump, 10, to bring its total to 579. 100 of those cas...

NEW YORK (AP) - A national coalition of labor unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work this month, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic ra...

PEORIA, Ill. — A police presence in the East Bluff. Peoria Police on Wednesday, July 8, opened a new Police Resource Center in the 2300 block of N. Wisconsin in the former Kroger building, now o...

Did you know you could make your own bouncy balls? It seems pretty simple and a fun activity to try at home! Here’s what you’ll need: Two small bowls Two plastic forks Measuring cup Measur...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus has hit 3 million, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University. But U.S. health officials say the real number of infecti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal money if schools don’t reopen in the fall. He says the guidelines that his own federal health officials have cre...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Public Schools’ Chief of Resource Officers, Demario Boone, has won a national award for school safety in K-12 schools from Campus Safety Magazine. “I’ve b...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police were called around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday to the scene of a shooting in the 1200 block of W. Millman. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said a ShotSpotter alert ind...