Hannah West, 17, of Geneseo, begns a therapeutic walk in the hall Thursday at Children's Hospital of Illinois Thursday. West was transferred to the Peoria hospital with bacterial pneumonia and H1N1 flu. West, at Children's Hospital since Oct. 26, began therapy after removal of a ventilator required for treatment. Helping West at left is respiratory therapist Jeanette Stewart and physical therapist Kate Mabry, right.
11/19/2009
Album ID: 892643
Photos by David Zalaznik
Fire fatality
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Investigators work at the scene of a fatal fire at a home at 2408 NE Monroe St. Thursday. A neighbor, Robert Halverson, came out of his house about 6:15 a.m. to get his newspaper and saw flames through the window of the house across the street and called 911. A heavily secured front door initially prevented firefighters from entering the house and forced them to quell the fire from the front window.
11/19/2009
Album ID: 892669
Photos by David Zalaznik
Reaction to New Mamograms Guidelines
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Breast surgeon Lynne Jalovec, center, and Jessica Guingrich, medical director of breast imagery at OSF Saint Francis Centers for Breast Health, discuss a case at the center Wednesday afternoon. Jalovec says new standards calling for routine mamograms to begin after age 50 rather than 40 amount to rationing of care that will be detrimental for women in the most productive years of their lives. "It's ludicrous," Jalovec said.
11/18/2009
Album ID: 892028
Photos by Leslie Renken
Maroon 5 Plays Peoria
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Maroon 5 came to Peoria Wednesday night, playing the Peoria Civic Center Theatre to the delight of over 2,200 fans.
11/18/2009
Album ID: 892244
Photos by Ron Johnson
Escapee captured
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Peoria County Sheriffs deputies exit a house at 2114 N. North St. in Peoria Wednesday where Peoria County Jail escapee James E. Fuller was apprehended.
11/18/2009
Album ID: 891948
Photos by David Zalaznik
Smokers Grow in Number
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Reversing a trend from the last ten years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more adults are smoking than in years past. Jay Waree of Peoria, taking a smoke break inside Discount Tobacco, 4325 N Sheridan Road, said that he figured that the economy and people losing their jobs could easily explain the uptick. Waree said, "To me, it's a bad thing, but people develop new habits...when times are like this."
11/18/2009
Album ID: 891995
Photos by Fred Zwicky
Aktion Club
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Dick Cox, Aktion Club administrator for the Kiwanis' Illinois-Eastern Iowa District, looks on as Pekin club vice president Penny Raithel rings the bell during the club's charter meeting last week.
11/17/2009
Album ID: 890813
Photos by Elise Zwicky
Candles in remembrance
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Juanita Swanson of Chillicothe, holds a candle and reflects with others at Tuesday evening's candle lighting ceremony at the Alzheimer's Association Central Illinois Chapter at 606 W. Glen to commemorate National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month. Swanson also read a poem to those gathered in honor of her mother who was inflicted with the disease.
11/17/2009
Album ID: 891390
Photos by Ron Johnson
Rain Keeps Pumpkins in the Field
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Pumpkin farmer John Ackerman walks through a neighbor's waterlogged pumpkin field Tuesday afternoon while discussing the difficulties of this year's harvest. Ackerman's own 33-acre field of processing pumpkins, which is not near a paved road, was unaccessible do to muddy conditions. Though yields were good this year, heavy rains have make it difficult of Libby to get their equipment into the fields to harvest. The company announced Tuesday that there will likely be a pumpkin shortage later this year.
11/17/2009
Album ID: 891227
Photos by Leslie Renken
Cold and Rain
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Sharlissa Briggs crosses Adams Street in downtown Peoria on her way to Workforce Network Tuesday morning. Pedestrians should bundle up and take their umbrellas again today with a 70 percent chance of more rain and temperatures in the mid 40s.
11/17/2009
Album ID: 891237
Photos by Leslie Renken
Jail Escape
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Two inmates escape from Peoria County Jail.
11/17/2009
Album ID: 891067
Photos by David Zalaznik
Heavy Shaking at CAT
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Caterpillar Inc. Director of Global Validation Mark Craig discusses details of a test run on a D8 with Pam Roberts, engineering supervisor for the new Structural Dynamics Lab in Mossville. The new facility allows engineers to punish their machine designs in the lab before it hits the market using two massive shaker platforms that can induce months and years of wear in a matter of days.
11/16/2009
Album ID: 890168
Photos by Fred Zwicky
Salvation Army bellringers
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Michael Fleming, 4, readies his coins for deposit in the container following shopping at Kroger grocery store at Evergreen Square with his mother as Salvation Army bellringer Jeff Rachell rings the bell at left. Rachell is in his third year as a bellringer for the Salvation Army.
11/16/2009
Album ID: 890347
Photos by David Zalaznik
182nd Airlift Wing members return
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Troops from the 182nd Airlift Wing are welcomed home at the Air National Guard Base in Peoria Monday afternoon.
11/16/2009
Album ID: 890620
Photos by Erica Magda
Benefit for Family of Shannon Brush
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Alexis Smith, 4, doesn't want to get too close to a pair of CPR mannequins held by Proctor Hospital CPR instructor Janet Callahan during a benefit for the family of 2-year-old choking victim Shannon Brush Sunday afternoon. Two free sessions of CPR and first aid training through the American Heart Association were raffled off during the benefit.
