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Connect Transit Approves Contracts For Electric Buses, Transfer Center

The Connect Transit board Tuesday approved a contract to bring on four electric buses per year over the next three to four years.General Manager Isaac…

Most COVID-19 Positive Peoria County Jail Detainees Now Considered Recovered

The COVID-19 outbreak at the Peoria County Jail appears to be abating.

Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, right, speaks with a Senate staffer a few hours before debating a bill to reform the Prisoner Review Board.

Prisoner Review Board reform bill clears Senate

Updated from last year’s bill, it aims to increase transparency of prisoner releases

Active COVID-19 Cases In Tri-County Area Fall For 2nd Straight Day

Active COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County area have fallen sharply, with nearly 600 fewer residents either hospitalized or isolating at home since Friday.

Surrounded by loved ones, Pastor Michelle Thomas grieves at the stone marking her son's grave at the African American Burial Ground for the Enslaved at Belmont. Her son, Fitz Alexander Campbell Thomas, 16, died in June and is the first free African American to be buried at the site.

A Pastor Rescues A Cemetery For Enslaved People, Then Buries Her Son In It

After her teenaged son drowned, Pastor Michelle Thomas decided to bury him in a old burial ground she had come across earlier while searching for a new site for her church.

Tri-County Adds 4,200 COVID-19 Vaccinations; Active Cases Top 2,100

The Tri-County area just recorded one of its biggest days for COVID-19 vaccinations, as public health officials on Thursday reported more than 2,100...

FILE - This Jan.15, 2013 file photo shows, Salli Shields preparing food supplies to be distributed to those people and families in need, at the Grace Lutheran Church Food Pantry in Springfield, Ill. New U.S. census figures released Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 show that Illinois' poverty rate held stubbornly at nearly 15 percent last year, signaling what anti-poverty activists say is worrisome proof that any economic recovery has not reached those struggling with low income. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

New approach to child welfare challenges the definition of neglect

Each state creates its own definitions of abuse and neglect and sets a threshold for when a child should be removed from a home. Is it time to rethink Illinois' definitions?

A crowd waits for the Unit 5 school board meeting to begin Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in the Normal West Community High School auditorium.

Unit 5's continued mask mandate draws ire of crowd at school board meeting

Nearly two dozen speakers aired frustrations during public comments at the Unit 5 school board's meeting Wednesday night, while a sign-waving crowd applauded from their seats in the Normal Community West High School auditorium.

Students wearing masks in front of school building

Heyworth schools partially back in person Thursday after online pause from COVID spike

The superintendent of Heyworth Schools said Tuesday the district will move ahead with plans to bring back junior and senior high school students to in person classes on Thursday.

Lynn Fulton, president of OSF Healthcare, said that along with advances in treatment options, hospitals are naturally moving toward fewer beds.

COVID tests the limits at OSF amid staff burnout and strained capacity

Kim Blakey oversees patient flow and bed capacity at OSF HealthCare St. Joseph in Bloomington. She says transfer patients are being turned away daily.

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