Rich Egger
News DirectorRich is the News Director at Tri States Public Radio. Rich grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago but now calls Macomb home. Rich has a B.A in Communication Studies with an Emphasis on Radio, TV, and Film from Northern Illinois University. Rich came to love radio in high school where he developed his “news nerdiness” as he calls it. Rich’s high school had a radio station called WFVH, which he worked at for a couple years. In college, Rich worked at campus station WKDI for three years, spinning tunes and serving at various times as General Manager, Music Director and Operations Manager. Before being hired as Tri States Public Radio’s news director in 1998, Rich worked professionally in news at WRMN-AM/WJKL-FM in Elgin and WJBC-AM in Bloomington. In Rich’s leisure time he loves music, books, cross-country skiing, rooting for the Cubs and Blackhawks, and baking sugar frosted chocolate bombs. His future plans include “getting some tacos.”
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The school district is taking security measures designed to make it more difficult for an armed intruder to enter its buildings. -
The products include potted meat and a variety of Vienna sausages.
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Macomb Police Chief Jerel Jones called the attack “horrific and disheartening,” and Galesburg Police Chief Russ Idle called it "appalling and indefensible."
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Shop Talk is a weekly panel discussion about journalism issues. This week, the panelists talk about the rise in the number of police departments encrypting their radio scanner communications.
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$2 million will be spent on new buses. Another million will be used for renovations at the transit facility in Macomb.
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Shop Talk is a weekly panel discussion about journalism issues. This week, the crew talks about a long-time TV news anchor who used his final broadcast to defend the journalism profession.
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The lawsuit accuses Knox of failing to follow up-to-date security practices.
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Most of the money to pay for the work will come from the state.
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A city inspection found numerous problems at the old fort replica, such as leaky roofs and crumbling foundations. Several of the buildings are unstable.
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Abraham Lincoln is one of the most written about figures in history. There are thousands of books about him, but this one is unique.
