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    WC | Latest News

    Macomb School District reports death of student

    By Jaycie Doerr, WC Editor-in-Chief MACOMB, Illinois (Western Courier) - Macomb Police and McDonough County Sheriff's Department notified the Macomb community about a vehicle incident...

    WC | News

    Macomb School District reports death of student

    By Jaycie Doerr, WC Editor-in-Chief MACOMB, Illinois (Western Courier) - Macomb Police and McDonough County Sheriff's Department notified the Macomb community about a vehicle incident...

    The Big Board: how a small town is becoming a giant board game

    By Luis Verastigue, Guest WC Reporter MACOMB (WC) – The world’s largest Monopoly board is coming to Macomb’s Downtown Square, in honor and celebration of...

    Most classes in Tillman Hall to be moved into Currens, Waggoner halls

    By JAYCIE DOERR News3 Executive Producer & WC Editor-in-Chief MACOMB, Illinois (News3 & WC) - As Tillman Hall closes at Western Illinois University, meteorology, geographic information...

    Students question university’s response to shooting

    By JAYCIE DOERR, News3 Executive Producer & WC Editor-in-Chief MACOMB, Illinois (News3 & WC) - On March 25, a shooting in Macomb killed one and...

    Macomb shooting results in one dead, 10 injured, suspect arrested

    By Jaycie Doerr, Editor-in-Chief MACOMB, IL (WC) - One person is dead and 10 more were injured, including six Western Illinois University students, in a...

    WC | Sports

    NFL Free Agency Frenzy

    By Nick Grunewald, WC Reporter NFL free agency opened less than a month ago, but in that short period of time plenty of deals were...

    NFL Tag Deadline Updates

    By Nick Grunewald, WC Reporter MACOMB, IL (WC) - The franchise tag deadline has come and gone. It presented one last opportunity for teams to...

    Derek Carr Heads to the Bayou

    By Nick Grunewald, WC Reporter LAS VEGAS, NV (WC) -Former Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr has agreed to a 4yr/$150M deal with the New...

    LeBron, Lakers Can’t Catch a Break

    By Nick Grunewald, WC Reporter LOS ANGLES, CA (WC) - After months of constant drama and distractions, things finally started clicking for LeBron James and...

    Blockbuster Deadline Deal Sends KD to the Valley

    By: Nick Grunewald The Phoenix Suns have agreed to a blockbuster deal acquiring Kevin Durant and T.J. Warren from the Brooklyn Nets in a four-team...

    WC | Opinions

    Communicating on campus: How WIU bureaucracy fails

    By Jaycie Doerr, WC Editor-in-Chief MACOMB, IL (WC) - Western Illinois University uses an emergency alert system to communicate with students during crisis situations. This...

    Pentagon Pays for Service Member’s Access to Abortions

    By Jaycie Doerr, Editor-in-Chief In light of the atrocious news of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many different states have reacted differently to the...

    Abortion Bans: A Constitutional Issue

    By Jaycie Doerr, WC Opinions Editor No one thought after Row v. Wade in the 1970s that the right to women’s healthcare would be questioned....