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TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. — Since July of this year, Tazewell County has seen four confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease. Legionnaires’ disease is a very serious type of pneumonia cau...

PEORIA, Ill. — The local death toll due to COVID-19 is now at 56 after a female in her 90’s has died. The woman was a resident of a long-term care facility, Apostolic Christian Skyline. Th...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats have scuttled a scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package, saying the measure shortchanges too many pressing needs as the pandemic continues its assault on the coun...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The state of Illinois’ preliminary seven-day statewide positivity rate has fallen below 4%. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced Thursday that the ...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Central Illinois region’s first hospital-based dialysis center is now open in Peoria. UnityPoint Health opened the center Thursday, Sept. 10, and the hospital can serve ...

PEKIN, Ill. — Although it will look a little different this year, Pekin’s annual Marigold Festival will go on this weekend. Pekin Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Amy McCoy told WMBD...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for jobless aid was unchanged last week at 884,000, a sign that layoffs are stuck at a historically high level six months after the viral pandemic fl...

PEORIA, Ill. — A suspect in the Saturday evening shooting of 21-year-old Terrence Dunigan has been arrested. 19-year-old Talya T. Zolicoffer, Jr. was identified as a suspect by detectives assign...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump talked privately about the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting the ...

PEORIA, Ill. — A Woodford County man in his 80s was reported Wednesday as the most recent area resident to die while sick with COVID-19. The man, according to Peoria City/County Health Departmen...