PEORIA - Peoria County's first COVID-19 death Saturday was a 91-year-old man in an independent assisted living facility in Peoria.

The coronavirus pandemic hit home last week. No, I'm healthy and so is my family. I'm grateful for that.

PEORIA - The Peoria Rivermen finished first in the SPHL on a tiebreaker, but they still don't know if they are champions.

Illinois tax collections were largely spared the impact of the coronavirus in March, but state officials warned that the worst is yet to come.

As she sat Wednesday on the covered deck at the 4-Way Saloon in Sidell, overlooking the town grain elevator, Leslie Powell made her way down the list of tasks she had scribbled on her yellow notepad.