News Progress

•July 24, 2019• Stacey Knight-Davis, Professor and Head of Library Technology Services at Eastern Illinois University’s Booth Library, has been selected to receive the 2019 Illinois Library Association Reference Services Award, given annually for excellence in providing assistance to library users as they seek and use information. The Reference Services Award will be presented at an Awards Luncheon October 22, during the 2019 Illinois Library Association Annual Conference in Tinley Park. “I’m honored to have been recognized for this award,” Knight-Davis said. “While this is an individual award, all of the projects mentioned in the nomination were team projects. Collaboration, … Read More

•July 24, 2019• With high temperatures trending in recent weeks, those spending time outside should know the signs that they are getting overheated and need to get out of the elements. “There are about two and a half patients out of 100,000 who seek care for heat related illness,” said Dr. John Rinker, Chief Medical Officer, OSF HealthCare Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center. “Certainly in the summer months it’s more common. You’ll see it a lot more surrounding people participating in high risk activities: people that play sports, so think high school kids who are otherwise healthy, but they’re … Read More

•July 24, 2019• The Dine with a Doc®-Sullivan is scheduled for 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. August 6 at the Max J. Knight Community Building Banquet Hall (at Mason Point) located at One Masonic Way in Sullivan. … Read More

Midwest, Illinois needs to get their act together •July 24, 2019• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist Many rural Midwest towns have become like my stereotype of Appalachia – main streets of mostly empty storefronts; lots of unskilled folks left behind, yearning for jobs “on the line” that are gone forever; too many single mothers struggling to make it on low-wage work, or welfare, lacking the time or know-how to nurture high educational expectations in their children. Small town decline began at least a century ago, when farm families exchanged horse and wagon for the Model T. They could thus … Read More