Thomson News

A Thomson teenager has died after a rollover accident on Wednesday. According to officials, Sonya Foster, 18, of Thomson, died at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City on Thursday as a ...

The Thomson Elementary School has been under the watchful eye of the school district for some time because it has the lowest MCAS scores of the town's five elementary schools.

For yet another year the Carroll County Cycling Club was happy to have beautiful weather for the Race and tour ride around the Carroll County area.

Submitted by: Anonymous " Though the Savanna Army Depot has been closed and is a major EPA brownfield, the environmentalists, the Army and US Fish & Wildlife have stymied most development by the Local ...

West Carroll FFA member Austin Ashby, son of James and Lisa Ashby of Savanna, Illinois, was honored Wednesday, June 11, by being elected State FFA Vice president for the 2008-2009 school year by the delegates ...

Flooding along the Mississippi River has forced some recreation areas along the river to be closed, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

River Front Festival '08, Music on the Mississippi, will be held Friday, June 20 from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. at Marquette Park in Savanna, the Savanna Chamber of Commerce announced.

Good morning, Quad-Cities. At 6 a.m. it's 70 degrees in the Q-C under mostly cloudy skies.

Savanna was one of the stops made in Northwest Illinois Tuesday by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

A full scale Mutual Aid Box Alarm System drill was held in Thomson at the Danisco Plant on Three Mile Road Wednesday, May 21.

Doug and Wanda Edwards of Thomson are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Holly Rachel Edwards, of Thomson, to Thomas Allen Peevy of Thomson, the son of Rev.

“The team worked very hard on this manual which took almost four years to get published”

Delta Alpha Recognition Awards were held Tuesday, April 22 at the Land of Oz in Mt. via Prairie Advocate

“My opponent in November, Mike Boland, has continued his 'policy of appeasement' with Gov. Blagojevich and the Democratic leadership in Springfield”

Lawrence Bruckner with Don Welvaert, Mayor of Moline, and Lori Turner, 5th Ward Alderman in Moline and Bruckner's Rock Island County campaign coordinator. via Prairie Advocate

A Thomson, Ill., woman is dead after a two-vehicle crash in western Whiteside County. via Clinton Herald

“At the Journal , the politics coverage was always the stepchild”

Shortly after nine in the morning on April 28, about two dozen reporters and editors in The Wall Street Journal 's Washington bureau assembled for the weekly staff meeting led by the D.C. bureau chief, John ... via New Republic

The Illinois Department of Corrections is shelving plans to shutter a maximum security unit in Joliet, targeting a more than 130-year-old prison in Pontiac for closure instead.

Many Pontiac Correctional Center inmates would move to a new-but-never-used maximum facility jailhouse in Thomson in northwestern Illinois' Carroll County, according to a letter from Corrections chief Roger Walker Jr., that was released Monday.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich said in February he wanted to close a portion of the Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet to save millions in operating and remodeling costs at the 83-year-old prison, but the plan met with stiff resistance. Read more

An evidentiary hearing for David Huffman scheduled for Thursday and Friday was postponed. via Clinton Herald

“Lawrence Bruckner is very dedicated to our community. Two years ago, Mr. Boland made promises to the people and communities of the 71st District that have not been kept”

The race is on. Thomson Republican Lawrence Bruckner filed paperwork in Springfield April 7 to take on 13-year incumbent State Representative Mike Boland. via Prairie Advocate

Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants to shutter the 83-year-old maximum security wing at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet and transfer those prisoners to modern facilities elsewhere in the state. via Chicago Tribune

The Frustrated Maestros Midwest Noteables chapter of FMCA's Midwest Area had a banner year in 2007. via Family Motor Coaching