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The Tri-County area is reporting 217 new COVID-19 cases and three additional deaths linked to the coronavirus on Wednesday.

A Peoria County man in his 20s is the Tri-County area's youngest resident to succumb to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, as health officials...

The Community News Brief is harnessing the journalism expertise still in Macomb to fill a local news void.

Seth Goodman said he can't keep organizing the hot air balloons that are the cornerstone of Lincoln's signature event. Goodman told WGLT he can't keep covering the $30,000 to $40,000 a year it takes to operate and insure the balloon flights.

Peggy Lowe joined Harvest Public Media in 2011, returning to the Midwest after 22 years as a journalist in Denver and Southern California. Most recently she was at The Orange County Register, where she was a multimedia producer and writer. In Denver she worked for The Associated Press, The Denver Post and the late, great Rocky Mountain News. She was on the Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Columbine. Peggy was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2008-09. She is from O'Neill, the Irish Capital of Nebraska, and now lives in Kansas City. Based at KCUR, Peggy is the analyst for The Harvest Network and often reports for Harvest Public Media.

As Unit 5 prepares to bring students back to the classroom next week, Superintendent Kristen Weikle sought to assure parents that bilingual learners would…

For the first time in more than three weeks, the Tri-County area added fewer than 300 new COVID-19 cases in one day.

Day will look dark as night. Stars will shine at midday. Birds that are normally vocal during the day will suddenly grow silent. The daytime spectacle…

Efforts are underway to create a museum in Woodford County dedicated to the first Black man in Illinois to cast a ballot after the ratification of the 15th Amendment.

Bloomington Police Chief Brendan Heffner says his officers have the difficult task of striking a balance between protecting the rights of homeless people…