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Is your family ready for a night out? Get ready for some fun and visit local Blackhawk Bank and Trust locations and/or fill out the form below to register to win one of 10 family packs of 6 tickets to Disney on Ice this November!
Deadline for entry is November 14th. 10 winners will be selected to receive 6 tickets to Disney On Ice presents Mickey’s Search Party at the TaxSlayer Center. Tickets will be for the Thursday, November 18th or Friday, November 19th show.
Join Mickey Mouse and his friends at Disney On Ice presents Mickey’s Search Party, an adventure filled with world-class skating, high-flying acrobatics and unexpected stunts! Look for clues in the search for Tinker Bell through immersive, fantastic worlds. Explore the colorful spirit realm of Coco, sail away with Moana as she bravely saves her island, see Belle in the sky as the enchanted chandelier comes to life, and singalong with Elsa in the icy world of Frozen. Make memories with your whole family during Aladdin, Toy Story and The Little Mermaid as the search party becomes an allout celebration!
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Port Byron – 124 North Main Street, Port Byron, IL 61275
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Princeton – 335 River Drive, Princeton, IA 52768
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One of Editor & Publisher’s ‘10 That Do It Right 2021’
Windy. Showers early becoming widely scattered for the afternoon. High 57F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 40%. Higher wind gusts possible..
Partly cloudy. Low 41F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph.
Updated: October 25, 2021 @ 3:41 am
UI Chancellor Robert Jones
Editor Jeff D’Alessio’s weekly Illini Insider page runs on Thursdays in The News-Gazette.
Kevin Hamilton outside Krannert Center.
A rendering of the Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building.

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Jeff D’Alessio is editor of The News-Gazette. His email is jdalessio@news-gazette.com.
Our weekly numerical look at Illini headlines:
Last memory to share about the most famous Daily Illini editor-in-chief of them all while counting down the 209 days until the thrice-postponed Ebertfest 22 kicks off.
I was asked to give one remembrance of #RogerEbert with some others who knew him. I had many – but the one here is what gave me my biggest smile. https://t.co/ShtfwJTIfX
It comes from Terrence Malick, twice an Oscar Best Director nominee, for ‘The Thin Red Line’ (1998) and ‘The Tree of Life’ (2011): “Roger Ebert was not only a great critic and lover of cinema, but a man of boundless generosity, sympathy and warmth. A companion and friend, even to those he never met. We miss him greatly.”
A rendering of the Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building.
Generous alums whose multi-million-dollar namesake buildings will be in the spotlight seven days apart. First up: the Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building, funded by a $21.5 million gift from a 1981 grad, for which a Foundation Weekend ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Oct. 1.
A week later during homecoming, it’s the grand opening of the $48 million Siebel Center for Design, named after three-degree UI grad and $25 million donor Tom Siebel.
Kevin Hamilton outside Krannert Center.
Administrative personnel moves rubber-stamped by UI trustees at this morning’s virtual meeting: a two-year extension for Kevin Hamilton as dean of the College of Fine + Applied Arts; the appointment of Venetria Patton as dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; and the promotion of Mike DeLorenzo, from senior associate chancellor for administration and operations to the newly created vice chancellor for administration and operations.
UI Chancellor Robert Jones
Years, 11 months and 28 days on the job for Robert Jones, who on Saturday will become the first UI chancellor to celebrate a five-year anniversary in office since Michael Aiken (1993-2001).
Jones ranks seventh in tenure among current Big Ten campus chiefs. No. 1: Morton Schapiro, Northwestern’s president since Sept. 1, 2009. No. 14: the administrator who preceded Jones as UI chancellor on an interim basis: Barb Wilson, Iowa’s president for the past 70 days.
Feels great to be back on Earth! I might miss the views outside of my Resilience room window tonight, but I’m happy to be home. pic.twitter.com/WEjRfWW25T
Months back on planet Earth for John Mackovic Illini football captain-turned-NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, who’ll share stories about his latest, greatest adventure — a 168-day back-and-forth trip to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon — during an Oct. 1 appearance at the Illini Union.
The featured speaker of a program entitled “Resilience of an Illini Astronaut” will be joined on his trip back to campus by fellow Class of ’91 grad — and wife — Julie Hopkins.
U.S. states that didn’t produce a member of Illinois’ new freshman class — Alaska, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and both Dakotas. Forty-four others did, from California (459) and New Jersey (152) to Maine and Montana (one apiece).
🔒ed in through 2027! @CoachUnderwood 🖋#Illini | #EveryDayGuys pic.twitter.com/rmh8FCgCCy
Where Brad Underwood‘s 2021-22 total compensation package ($4.1 million, including a $600,000 retention incentive) would rank on last season’s list of college basketball’s highest-paid coaches — behind Kentucky $8 million man John Calipari, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Villanova’s Jay Wright, Texas Tech’s since-departed Chris Beard, Tennessee’s Rick Barnes and North Carolina’s since-retired Roy Williams — according to USA Today’s salary database.
A reworked deal that adds a year, grows to $4.5 million in 2026-27 and puts Underwood in the top 10 nationally was approved by UI trustees today.
Today we celebrate @ARCHatIllinois alumna and Distinguished Legacy Award recipient @DinaGriffin161! A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects since 2018, Dina has 25+ years of experience in the practice of architecture. Read her bio at https://t.co/sWfxTwwlEh. #FAALegacies pic.twitter.com/ERc4hvgYjf
2021 FAA Legacy Award winners being recognized this week: architects Dina Griffin and Ralph Johnson, visual artist Catherine Black, professors Dan Perrino and John Wustman, Japan House founder Shozo Sato and two emerging legacy award recipients from the Class of 2013 — Sarah Bassett, co-founder of Peoples Culture, and Juri Seo, a Princeton-based pianist.
Reptiles set to share the Oct. 3 Vet Med Open House spotlight with seven dairy cows, five horses, five dogs, two red-tailed hawks, one Virginia opossum, one American kestrel and a cat. Roll call: a pair of ball pythons, two boas (one Brazilian rainbow, one Dumeril’s), two geckos (one leopard, one gargoyle), one bearded dragon, one blue-tongued skink (above) and an Eastern box turtle.
Where Illinois checked in among public schools in this month’s U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best undergraduate business marketing programs in higher ed. It’s a Big Ten-heavy list, with Michigan No. 1, Indiana No. 2 and Wisconsin No. 7.
Editor Jeff D’Alessio’s weekly Illini Insider page runs on Thursdays in The News-Gazette.

“I am in love with the Arboretum, especially the majestic bald cypress. I take many walks there with my husband and little ones in all seasons. Just this last week, my daughter took her first steps in the Idea Garden.”

The state’s highest honor will be bestowed upon eight Land of Lincoln legends, including three with Illini ties: Scott Altman, Carol Ross Barney and John Rogers.

Long before becoming the UI’s Morris Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, then-Ph.D. student Ken Schweizer shared a campus home with a family of raccoons. “Most bizarrely, they learned how to climb a three-story fire escape and enter a hole in the roof, allowing them to run around inside the walls of the house.”

‘Mutual respect is paramount. Valuing the opinion of one’s coworkers is critical to workplace harmony and productivity.’

‘One of my happiest professional moments at Illinois was just this spring when I learned that the program I direct, the MS in Library and Information Science, had again been named, by U.S. News & World Report, the No. 1 program in the country.’

The dog-loving, adventure-seeking Michigander talks motorcycles, meetings and the most important rule of the workplace: ‘I have zero tolerance for unethical behavior. Our community holds us to a higher standard, and we should hold ourselves to that higher standard.’

“As a Floridian that just so happened to interview here in the month of February, I was enchanted by the snow. So, my host took my wife and I on a brief nighttime walk through the Quad during a light snow. The scene was quite remarkable for this Florida boy.”

“You never know who or what is going to walk in the emergency room door here. It could be a millionaire or a homeless person. It could be a chicken or a chihuahua. But there is comfort in the chaos because it feels like home.”

“It’s been a huge honor to be a part of this faculty — Illinois gave me my career,” the retiring Cele Otnes says. “I’ll spend much of my retirement trying to give back to an institution that gave me so much.”

“I will just be happy to be back on campus. It will be bittersweet because so many of my students graduated over the last 16 months. Under normal circumstances, I would have had the chance to read their names and celebrate their achievements as they participated in graduation ceremonies.”

“Whenever I’m worried about insect decline and the ‘beepocalypse,’ a visit to the Pollinatarium prairie — camera in hand — reminds me that there are tiny but safe refuges for our native plants and for the spectacular diversity of insect species that have made their homes in Illinois long before people showed up on the scene.”
🔒ed in through 2027! @CoachUnderwood 🖋#Illini | #EveryDayGuys pic.twitter.com/rmh8FCgCCy
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PRINCETON – A 60-year-old Princeton man is dead after a two vehicle crash Tuesday. The Bureau County Sheriff’s Office reported they were called to US Route 6 east of Princeton around 2:30 PM for a car versus motorcycle collision. They say a 19-year-old from Princeton was driving an SUV that was involved in the crash that killed the driver of a Harley Davidson. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and his identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The crash remains under investigation by the Bureau County Sheriff’s Office, Illinois State Police Traffic Accident Reconstructionist and Bureau County Coroner.
DARIEN, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether human remains found at a suburban Chicago nature preserve could be those of a United Airlines executive who vanished more than a year ago. Contractors found the […]
PERU – Many area police departments are echoing the same message this Halloween, ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’. With the streets filled with children during weekend nights for the holiday, authorities are urging those […]
CEDAR POINT – One person was killed after a vehicle struck a building in Cedar Point Saturday night. According to the Cedar Point Fire Department, they were called around 9:30 PM to Illinois Highway 71 […]
DEKALB – A Two vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer has taken the life of a DeKalb man. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s office were called to the intersection of Peace Road and Fairview Drive Friday around […]
  MENDOTA – The Mendota FFA Ag Sales team advances in area competition. The Agricultural Sales Career Development Event consists of activities closely related to the entire sales process. FFA members are tested on their […]
By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady became the first player to throw 600 career touchdown passes and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers routed the Chicago Bears 38-3 for the best […]
MENDOTA – The 5-4 Mendota Trojans Football Team will be playing an extra football game on the road this season after qualifying for the playoffs for the first time in seven seasons. They will play […]
MENDOTA – The Mendota Trojans Boys Soccer Team captured their first ever sectional title Saturday night, topping the Quincy Notre Dame Raiders 3-2 in a hard fought contest. The leading scorer this season, senior Yahir […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane is missing practice because of the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. Fellow forward Ryan Carpenter and defenseman Erik Gustafsson also are missing practice for the same reason. The announcement […]
By TRAVIS JOHNSON Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Casey Washington caught a 2-point conversion pass from Brandon Peters to end the first nine-overtime game in NCAA history and lift Illinois over No. 7 […]

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PRINCETON, Ill. — Throughout the weekend, people were given the chance to get an up-close look at the American Civil War during the Shadows of the Blue and Gray event. 
It was the 26th year of the reenactment. There were camp life demonstrations, battle scenes and Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the end. There was even a medical presentation after the battle, where they performed a surgery.
The reenactment offed a chance for people to learn about what caused the Civil War and how Union and Confederate soldiers lived and fought. 
“It’s important for people to understand what it was like back then, to see both sides and to understand that it’s not all bad, it’s not all good on either side,” co-president Debi Johnson said. “It just gives everybody a chance to come out and walk around the camps and interact with the reenactors and learn about history.”
The last day of the event was Sunday, Oct. 10 at City County Park in Princeton, Illinois, where live battle scene took place at 2:00 p.m.
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Colin Mickow of Oswego, a sixth place finisher in the Chicago Marathon. (WSPYnews.com photo by Mark Harrington). 

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Colin Mickow of Oswego, a sixth place finisher in the Chicago Marathon. (WSPYnews.com photo by Mark Harrington). 
He never started out to be a marathon runner.
Competing in only his fourth marathon, he had a simple strategy for 26 miles.
But when anyone steps to the starting line now for a simple local 10k, the name of Oswego’s Colin Mickow will be whispered respectively and in awe.
He has raced with the elite. 
After running 26.2 miles, Mickow placed sixth in one of the nation’s tops, the Chicago Marathon a few weeks ago. His time: two hours and 13 minutes. That made him the second fastest USA runner in the contest. Fifty USA states and 100 countries were represented. He was just over seven minutes from the winner, Seifa Tura of Ethiopia. 
During the race, his mile pace clocked at  5:00 minutes to five minutes-fourteen seconds, relying on a watch. Looking back, Mickow talked about the race.
At the last Olympic Trials, he took 15th, qualifying for the trials after his first ever marathon experience. So why, the marathon?
Many may have never heard of the 31-year old in Oswego. He grew up in Princeton, Illinois, a high school all-stater, then running for The University of Illinois. Up next, maybe the Boston or New York Marathons. 
Yet when driving Route 25, you may see Colin Mickow running on the Fox River Trail, all the way to Batavia and back, some 28 miles, all in a day’s work. In his ear buds, he’s listening to Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks.”
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Illinois Democrats are getting pushback on new congressional district boundaries they proposed last week, and not just from Republicans who stand to lose U.S. House seats under the plan.
Voters from Chicago’s southwest side, who were drawn out of the district currently held by Democratic Rep. Marie Newman, told lawmakers Wednesday that the newly released maps would dilute their representation in Washington by putting their blue-collar, industrial neighborhoods in districts with “miles and miles of farmland.”
Another witness criticized the way districts held by Black members of Illinois’ congressional delegation were “hacked up,” in what Rep. Bobby Rush, who is Black, called “a horrendous map.” And the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, a nonpartisan group that studies redistricting, gave Illinois’ proposed map an “F” for fairness.
The Democrats, who control state government and redistricting in Illinois, are expected to approve new maps as soon as next week. Although it’s possible they will make changes to the draft they released Friday, the maps are expected to maintain the party’s partisan advantage and eliminate at least one Republican-held district.

Illinois currently has 18 seats in the U.S. House, with Democrats holding 13 and Republicans the other five. The state is losing a congressional seat because of population loss, most of which occurred in heavily Republican areas of central and southern Illinois, according to the 2020 census.
The Democrats’ new map is intended to elect 14 Democrats and three Republicans. It would dismantle the district currently held by GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a critic of former President Donald Trump who was one of 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump’s impeachment.
Instead, Kinzinger was drawn into the district held by Newman, which would stretch from Chicago’s southwest suburbs and west along Interstate 80 to the La Salle area. Kinzinger said Friday that he and his staff were looking over the maps and that he is “reviewing all of the options, including those outside the House.”
Former Rep. Dan Lipinski, who represented the 3rd District for more than a decade before losing to Newman in the 2020 Democratic primary, told Crain’s Chicago Business that he is considering challenging Newman for the seat.
Illinois is one of the few states where Democrats control redistricting, and the party nationally is looking to the state for help in 2022. Democrats control the U.S. House by a thin margin, and Republicans are in charge of redistricting in more states than Democrats, which could give the GOP an advantage in next year’s midterm elections.
On Tuesday, the National Republican Redistricting Trust blasted Illinois’ proposed maps, with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie saying a federal court ruling this week in a lawsuit over newly approved state legislative maps should be “a warning sign” to Illinois’ Democratic governor, J.B. Pritzker.
The court ruled that maps Democrats passed this spring based on population estimates rather than census data were unconstitutional. Democrats have since passed new state legislative maps using census data, though they are being challenged in court by Republicans and the Mexican American Legal and Educational Defense Fund.
The judges denied a request for a legislative redistricting commission made up of Republicans and Democrats to draft new maps, but said MALDEF, Republicans and Democrats may all submit new proposals for the court to consider.
“I hope that what the governor sees is, you can’t get away with it,” Christie said.

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ILLINOIS – As COVID cases have spiked in our Illinois counties, right now, there are no ICU beds available in region 5 according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Region 5 includes Edwards, Wabash, Wayne and White counties.
Most of the region’s ventilators are still available, as the IDPH website shows only about 46 are currently being used. The 7-day rolling average of COVID-19 patients hospitalized is holding steady with four days of patient increases.
The COVID spike is breaking the previous records set during December and January. Last week White county reported 214 new cases, breaking the record set in the first week of December of 175 cases. In August, Wayne County broke its monthly record of 414 new cases originally set in December, with 448 new cases in August.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT)- Like it or not, flu season is coming and it’s promising to bring sniffles and body aches.
After a weaker than usual flu season last year, Dr. David Schultz from Evansville Primary Care says we can expect a resurgence in flu cases both within the Tri-State and nationally.
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) Family and friends of Thomas Lofton Hazelwood are starting to pay their last respects in Henderson.
Hazelwood was found unresponsive after a fraternity event. Visitation started earlier this afternoon.
EVANSVILLE, Ind (WEHT) – The Vanderburgh County Coroner has identified the man who was found dead in a home on Stinson Avenue earlier this week. Timothy Ivy, 50, was reportedly strangled to death with a belt. His autopsy has been set for Saturday.
On Tuesday, authorities were investigating a kidnapping on Stinson Ave. that turned into an officer involved shooting when Carey Hammond left the house in an aggressive manner with what appeared to be a gun. Hammond is the alleged killer of Ivy.

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