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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fewer Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market recovery gains steam amid an economic boom, which is being fueled by a rapidly imp...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and mo...

PEORIA, Ill. — A Tuesday morning shooting in Peoria’s East Bluff has landed three men in Peoria County Jail. Peoria Police responded around 8:00 to the 1000 block of E. Republic on two Sho...

PEORIA, Ill. — The tri-county of Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford between Tuesday and Wednesday added four deaths related to COVID-19 to its totals. A woman from Peoria in her 40s died, and was no...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health reported as of Wednesday, 80% of Illinois senior citizens and 60% of all the state’s adults, overall, have gotten at least one ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — If COVID-19 numbers continue to improve in Illinois, Gov. J-B Pritzker says the state is on track to enter Phase Five of the Restore Illinois Plan in July. Chicago Mayor Lori...

(Reuters) -Facebook Inc’s oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump but said the indefinite suspension was wrong, in a much-awaited...

PEORIA, Ill. — A man was shot in the chest Tuesday afternoon in Peoria. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson told news partner 25 News that three shotspotter alerts came in just before 4:30 p.m...

***UPDATE*** 5/5/21 3:15 P.M. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the person who died. He said 25-year-old Katherine King of West Peoria died instantly from multiple blunt force trauma ...

PEORIA, Ill. — History was made in Peoria, Illinois Tuesday night as the city saw the first Black person and first woman to assume the role of Peoria’s mayor. Dr. Rita Ali was sworn in Tue...