Illinois State Treasurer, Dan Rutherford, speaks to the members of the Illinois Premier Boys State about his time in political office Wednesday in the Coleman Auditorium.
A helicopter and hundreds of state agency officials will descend on Eastern today for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency’s 2012 state-level exercise.
Senior Zye Boey closed out his record setting Eastern career over the weekend, placing 14th in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.21, fourth place in his heat at the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Ray Carr, a 60-year-old Charleston resident, stands with a replica 1862 Mountain Howitzer on Saturday at his home on the corner of Sixth Street and Polk Avenue. Carr made the cannon himself and builds and sells a variety of model antique firearms from his home.
Jarad Burns, Charleston Resident, holds up Riley Mcelee, 6, Tuesday Charleston at Carnige Public Library in order for her to get a better view of the Venus Transit through a solar-filtered telescope. The transit involves Venus moving in front of the sun and the next one will not happen until 2117.
Fresh off a two-year hiatus from the spotlight, John Mayer has returned from the rolling hills of his Montana sanctuary with the release of his new album “Born and Raised.”
I wanted to like “Snow White and the Huntsman.” Despite my rampant and oft-vocalized contempt for all things Kristen Stewart, I thought Charlize Theron’s perfection and Chris Hemsworth’s face (and body, and beard) would more than make up for it.
