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Sales of this item are up over 200% this year. What is it?
October 20, 2020 Q: Sales of this item are up over 200% this year. What is it? A: Pinball machines
Nancy Flagg Oct 20, 2020

Pritzker brings back daily press briefings
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J-B Pritzker is resuming his daily updates on COVID-19 as all regions of the state are seeing cases increase. “Thursday we set a record high of cases identified in...
Julia Bradley Oct 20, 2020

Supreme Court denies GOP request to stop extended period in Pennsylvania for returning ballots
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania election officials will be allowed to count ballots received up to three days after Election Day after a Monday night Supreme Court ruling. This refuses a Republican re...
Dalton Kemper Oct 19, 2020

Local COVID roundup 10/19: 6 die, over 200 new positives
PEORIA, Ill. — Long-term care facilities in Peoria and Tazewell Counties over the weekend grieved six deaths related to COVID-19. In Tazewell, a woman in her 80s who lived at Timber Creek Rehab ...
Jeremy Scott Oct 19, 2020

Peoria Police find woman dead in home
PEORIA, Ill. — A woman was found dead in her home Monday morning in the 2300 block of W. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Peoria Police Detectives received a tip regarding a deceased person inside of ...
Dalton Kemper Oct 19, 2020

State COVID roundup 10/19: seven-day positivity rate rises again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported 3,113 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 22 additional deaths. The seven-day statewide pos...
Dalton Kemper Oct 19, 2020

Early Voting breaking records in Tazewell and Peoria Counties
PEORIA, Ill. — Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, early voting has been very popular with local voters so far. Two weeks ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election, Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman s...
Julia Bradley Oct 19, 2020

Farmington Central Schools shift to virtual learning due to COVID case
FARMINGTON, Ill. — Farmington Central Jr. High and Elementary schools will begin remote learning this week after a positive COVID-19 case. The district’s website said on Sunday that a staf...
Julia Bradley Oct 19, 2020

IL governor says Trump partly to blame for COVID-19 spike
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker says President Donald Trump and his allies in Illinois are partly to blame for the surge in coronavirus cases in the state. Pritzker spoke Sunday on CNN’s "Stat...
Julia Bradley Oct 19, 2020

COVID-19 cases worldwide surpasses 40 million
LONDON (AP) - The world’s number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has surpassed 40 million. The milestone was hit Monday according to Johns Hopkins University, which collates tallies from around t...
Julia Bradley Oct 19, 2020
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