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A $5 million investment from 1965 Monmouth College graduate William Goldsborough and his wife, Beverly, will be used in several ways on the private liberal arts college campus.
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s renowned “I Have a Dream” speech still reverberates for Rev. Carolyn Blair, more than six decades after the civil rights leader delivered the speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. -
The Etz Family Institute for Civic Leadership and Dialogue at Knox College will host a conversation with Cornel West and Robert P. George, two nationally known scholars whose friendship spans deep ideological divides. -
This year's speaker at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation at Knox College is Melvin L. Rogers, the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brown University. -
Commentator Beth Howard says these are trying times in the U.S. But she’s found a welcome distraction from the troubling headlines. -
The Prairie Hills Land Bank Authority will seek a $1 million federal grant to clean up the former Haeger Pottery property in Macomb.
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On January 26, 2026 at 6pm The University of Chicago Institute of Politics, WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and International House are convening the three front runner Democratic candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois in advance of the March 17, 2026 primary elections. You can watch here on TSPR's website.
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