PEORIA -- While some restaurants around Peoria are closing permanently or temporarily because of the coronavirus pandemic, one with a prominent name is opening.

It's time for Christopher Columbus to make one more voyage:Out of Bradley Park. The final destination?

METAMORA - Two employees of Snyder Village Assisted Living have tested positive for the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness.

MINONK - There's nothing like a mother's love for her child.

SPRINGFIELD - The novel coronavirus is worse in southern Illinois than it is in the Chicago area, and college parties thrown by returning students risk exacerbating the spread of COVID-19, Gov.