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In today's newsletter:

  • Who will lead Springfield’s SIU Medicine into its next chapter?
  • Which college team is coming to Springfield to close Lincoln’s 2025 slate?
  • How a Springfield farm kid became a statewide agriculture power player

Also on today's calendar: The Dinner Detective True Crime Murder Mystery Dinner Show - Springfield, IL.

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Today's riddle: What did the stop sign say to the yield sign? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

1. SIU Medicine Launches National Search For Next Dean, Provost And CEO (riverbender.com) — Southern Illinois University Medicine in Springfield has begun a national search for its next dean, provost and CEO, a role that will shape local healthcare and medical education. A broad search committee of physicians, administrators and a student will work with executive search firm Isaacson, Miller, and applications are being accepted immediately.
   

2. Lincoln men to host Central Christian College of the Bible (newstribune.com) — College basketball fans will see Purdue Northwest visit Springfield this Saturday, when Lincoln wraps up its 2025 schedule in town. Before that, Lincoln’s men host Central Christian College of the Bible today and Arkansas Baptist on Wednesday, with several Blue Tigers averaging double figures and looking to build on a recent overtime win.
   

3. Mark Gebhards is named IFB Eagle Award winner (agrinews-pubs.com) — A Springfield-area farm leader, Mark Gebhards, has been honored with the Illinois Farm Bureau’s 2025 Eagle Award for Excellence for his decades of statewide agricultural leadership. The retired IFB executive, raised on a farm near Springfield, was recognized in Chicago for shaping policy, strategy, and commodity programs that affect farmers across Illinois.
   

4. Two Illinois election board Dems blocked Senate President Harmon fines, have ties to his donors (jg-tc.com) — An investigation details how two Democratic members of the Illinois State Board of Elections helped block nearly $10 million in fines tied to donations benefiting Senate President Don Harmon, whose work often unfolds at the Capitol in Springfield. The report scrutinizes their political ties to organizations that gave above-limit contributions while the case was pending.
   

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