Rich Egger
News DirectorRich has served as TSPR's News Director since July, 1998. The news department has earned walls full of reporting awards since then. Before coming to TSPR, Rich worked professionally in commercial radio news at WRMN-AM/WJKL-FM in Elgin and WJBC-AM in Bloomington. Rich has a B.A. in Communication Studies with an Emphasis on Radio, TV and Film from Northern Illinois University. In Rich's leisure time he spends way too much money on vinyl records. He also enjoys books, cross-country skiing, rooting for the Cubs and Blackhawks, and making various baked goods, including sugar frosted chocolate bombs. His future plans include getting some tacos, especially when Sandra's Authentic Mexican Truck is in town.
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A psychological thriller will open the new season for Players Workshop, 1431 Grove St. in Burlington. -
Leaders at Western Illinois University paid tribute to one of the institution’s trailblazers, Maurine Magliocco, who passed away this summer. She was 81. -
Spoon River College has hired a firm to auction off its former campus at 208 S. Johnson St. in Macomb. -
The Board of Trustees agreed to lease the space in Horrabin Hall in Macomb to Regional Office of Education 26, which serves Fulton, Hancock, McDonough, and Schuyler counties. -
Work will begin next week on construction of a new water treatment plant. The single-story structure will be built at the northwest corner of Ward and Grant streets. -
Western Illinois University held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate completion of the first phase of its new Emergency Operations Center on the Macomb campus. -
The piece is from World Trade Center One, the first tower hit on Sept. 11, 2001. -
WIU cut the ribbon on Tuesday afternoon to mark the opening of the Goldfarb Center for Performing Arts. A new state-funded academic facility had not been built on the Macomb campus since Malpass Library opened its doors in Sept. 1978. -
Julie Leonard will begin the job on Sept. 21. -
Western Illinois University will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Goldfarb Center for Performing Arts at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15.
