A 4th of July tradition is underway in Hannibal and it has local businesses excited. National Tom Sawyer Days had thousands of visitors coming into Hannibal on Saturday.
A Hannibal tradition had hundreds on Main Street cheering kids on for a fence-painting contest. The pee-wee and girls fence painting was put on by the Hannibal Jaycees.
Testing by the State Hygienic Lab in Coralville says the patient, who is from the north-central part of Iowa, was likely infected with monkeypox during international travel.
The Illinois Department of Public Health provided the pandemic health navigator program with $10 million Thursday to help the community health workers stay in their roles in 27 counties.