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PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria City/County Health Department announced zero new COVID-19 cases Tuesday at the daily news conference. This keeps the local total in the Tri-County area at eight. There ...

CHICAGO, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said that testing is important to understand the outbreak across the state and that some counties in the state are affected more by the virus. The governor sai...

PEORIA, Ill. — If you’re working from home due to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “Shelter in Place” order, your work computer and your network could be at risk. Dave Johnson, with ...

PEORIA, Ill. — Illinois is facing a critical period in its fight against COVID-19. Doug Kasper, Interim section head of infectious disease at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peori...

TOKYO (AP) – The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed until 2021. The International Olympic Committee along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organizers have decided tha...

Being from the Midwest, people elsewhere think we talk different. What do you think? Sometimes you just grow up hearing things pronounced a certain way and you go with it. What about the foods we eat?...

MAPLETON, Ill. — Caterpillar has temporarily shutdown its Mapleton plant due to a change in customer demand, not due to concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. “We are taking a variety ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Top congressional and White House officials negotiating the nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package say they expect to reach a deal sometime Tuesday. Treasury Secretary S...

March 24, 2020 Q: The total length of THIS is 2 1/2 miles. What is it? A: The largest living thing. It's a mushroom in Oregon.  

PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county region’s positive COVID-19 case count Monday moved up to eight, from five over the weekend. Two of the new cases were in Peoria, and ...