Coming attraction
Get ready, Western Illinois University, there's a new theater in town. Set to open at the beginning of May, Rialto Cinemas will add six new screens to Macomb.
Since 2005, residents of Macomb and Western Illinois students have only had the option of the Cinema I & II for big-screen movies.…
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Best of Macomb Ballot Now Available!Complete by April 10, 2009
Best of Macomb Ballot Now Available!
Tell everyone what you think Macomb's best pizza place, sandwich shop or residence hall is!
Click through to the official ballot, print it out, fill in the blanks and return in University Mail or in mailboxes attached to the Courier racks in the University Union and Thompson Hall.
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The show goes on
Unknown to most, Cinema I & II is leased by Western Illinois University to parent movie corporation Carmike Theaters. With a new theater scheduled to open in two months, the university has decided to extend the Carmike lease through May 31 and run the theater on a month-by-month basis.…
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GPS providing agricultural breakthroughs
Ryan Leonard, a Western Illinois University alumnus and a sales manager at the Kara Company, discussed how McDonough County's agricultural industry would benefit from the use of GPS technology on Thursday, March 26.
The presentation was hosted by Western Illinois' Geographic Information Systems Center at the University of Illinois Extension-McDonough County Office.…
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Earth hour illuminates global crisis
1 CHICAGO (AP) - From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State Building in New York and the Sears Tower in Chicago, illuminated patches of the globe went dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.…
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