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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A backlog of test reporting caused Friday’s statewide COVID-19 numbers to skew highly. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,368 new cases of coronavirus....

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. unemployment dropped sharply in August from 10.2% to a still-high 8.4%, with about half the 22 million jobs lost to the coronavirus outbreak recovered so far, the government sai...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States keeps regaining more of the jobs that vanished when the viral pandemic flattened the economy early this spring. Yet so deep were the layoffs that began in March tha...

PEORIA, Ill. — Labor Day has been an official holiday in the United States since 1882, but many people may not know why there is a day in the calendar to honor laborers. According to the U.S. De...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The rolling seven-day statewide positivity rate for COVID-19 has ticked slightly downwards as the Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Thursday 1,360 new cases of...

PEORIA, Ill. — A Tazewell County woman in her 80s has passed away from COVID-19. The octogenarian did not reside in a long-term care facility, said the Peoria City/County Health Department. The ...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria-area leaders have been meeting this week with representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC spent Wednesday conducting COVID-19 seminars with P...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With more cars on the roads this holiday weekend, Illinois State Police will be out in force. State Trooper Jayme Bufford said stepped up enforcement on Labor Day weekend wil...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government will provide its latest picture Thursday of the layoffs that have remained elevated at a weekly pace of around 1 million since the pandemic erupted nearly six mon...

WASHINGTON, Ill. — When Kevin Brown passed away in June 2019, it shook the local area. Brown, former Washington basketball coach, lost his battle with Glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, a...