Jane Carlson
Regional ReporterJane Carlson is TSPR's regional reporter.
She grew up on a farm at the edge of the woods along the banks of Pope Creek in west central Illinois and has a degree in English from Monmouth College. Her family always played NPR for the sows in the farrowing house.
Her work has appeared in print and on air across the state and has won awards from the Illinois Press Association, Illinois News Broadcasters Association, Best of Gannett, Public Media Journalists Association, and Radio Television Digital News Association.
In 2024, Jane won the Best Reporter award for small market radio in the Illinois News Broadcasters Association's Crystal Mic competition.
She also serves as faculty advisor for Knox College's award-winning student newspaper, The Knox Student.
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Sandburg, Lincoln, and Copland to converge on Orpheum stage in Knox-Galesburg Symphony season-openerThe Knox-Galesburg Symphony will perform Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27 at the Orpheum Theatre. -
A Galesburg-based manufacturer of high-quality meat snacks continues to expand its footprint in the region. -
Angelica Mangieri, a Galesburg native, was selected from eight applicants. She is a chef who in 2020 founded CommunityGro, an organization that aims to improve food access and sustainability. -
Now that repairs to a wall surrounding the stage at Galesburg’s Orpheum Theatre have been completed, it’s showtime again. -
Stephanie ‘Stevie’ Borders had just turned 18 when she left her parents’ Bushnell home to listen to a band at a local bar on Sept. 9, 2000. Her body would be found eight months later, concealed in a well off a gravel road north of Avon. State police say Borders’ death is a drug-induced homicide — and the concealment is part of the crime. But 25 years later, no one has ever been held accountable. -
The ordinance gives the police department the option to issue a $300 fine for the use of a fake ID instead of charging the offender with a misdemeanor under state law. -
A Granite City man was sentenced to natural life in prison without the possibility of parole in the April 29, 2022 death of Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Weist. -
After hearing a presentation from Prairie Hills Resource Conservation & Development, the board could take action to join the land bank in September. -
The county plans to finance the $466,559 purchase because it was not budgeted for. -
Galesburg Community News is a non-profit, digital news source that launched this month.
