Macomb News

Ameren regulations were the main obstacle standing in the way of Spoon River College having to build a six-foot privacy fence for a new facility.

Frank E. Giudice of Elmwood Park and Julia C. Reyes , also of Elmwood Park, were among the more than 1,550 students who earned academic degrees after the spring 2009 semester at Western Illinois University's Macomb and Quad Cities campuses.

Erin O'Connor, a Western Illinois University theater-acting major and dance minor, was crowned the 2009 Miss Illinois June 20 at the Miss Illinois Pageant in St.

The annual Juneteenth Celebration held at Chandler Park was carried out with much fanfare and community support Saturday, June 20.

It was a quick session of the Committee of the Whole Macomb City Council on Monday.

Monday was a quick session of the Committee of the Whole Macomb City Council. At the meeting Public Works Director Walter Burnett handed out a memo detailing the major projects from May 2009 for city council members to review.

On Friday, Peterman found himself at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., playing with the best golfers in the world in the first round of the U.S. Open.

Friday, June 19, 2009 at 7:31 a.m. A W ork on Ward street in Macomb will soon be a go.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 9:01 a.m. The west wing of the former Porcelain Products factory at 510 North Pearl Street in Macomb will be sold by MAEDCO to the city.

Macomb aldermen accepted the resignation letter of Police Chief Michael Galloway Monday.

Above all, Chicago jazz produces original thinkers -- iconoclasts who blithely ignore musical fashions dictated by either coast or even by the city itself.

Western Illinois University's agriculture department will host a herbicide field plot tour at 1 p.m. June 25 at the WIU Agronomy Field Lab on Ember Road, located immediately north of WIU's Harry Mussatto Golf Course, Macomb.

Friday, June 05, 2009 at 2:43 p.m. This is a news release from Western Illinois University following the meeting on 06/05/09 of the WIU Board of Trustee's meeting WIU Board Approves Cost Increases for New Students MACOMB, IL -- The Western Illinois University Board of Trustees approved today a 7.2 percent increase in all costs for students entering ...

Regulators on Friday shut down Bank of Lincolnwood, a small bank in Illinois, marking the 37th failure this year of a federally insured bank.

The odds for a new Western Illinois University campus in the Quad Cities are the best they've ever been.

A Macomb boy hit by a car Friday evening is recovering after surgery this weekend.

Two men were arrested late Wednesday for allegedly robbing two people at gunpoint.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Practice makes perfect; that was the hope behind a full-scale emergency operations exercise on WIU's Macomb Campus Wednesday, May 27th.

" The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's Division of Banking today approved the purchase of selected assets and liabilities of Citizens National Bank, Macomb by Morton Community Bank, Morton, Illinois following Citizens National Bank's closure at 6:30 p.m. by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The second phase of the "Legends at Gold Hills" subdivision was approved by the McDonough County Board Wednesday.