“Influences and Intersections” is in the Sandburg art gallery in building D on the Galesburg campus through Nov. 18. An artists’ reception for the show will be 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.The show and reception are free and open to the public. Regular gallery hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The chief deputy of the McDonough County sheriff’s office will retire on Nov. 15, less than two months after his weapon discharged during a cookout in a preschool parking lot.

The mural was unveiled during a brief ceremony in the Thomas C. Carper Amtrak Station.

A Knox County woman convicted of murdering the former police chief of Maquon is now in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections, but proceedings in the long-running case are ongoing as her defense counsel lays the groundwork for an appeal.

Women’s Voices commentator Heather McIlvaine-Newsad feels efforts to halt food assistance during the government shutdown are cruel. She calls them “hunger by design.”