Rich Egger
Rich is the News Director at Tri States Public Radio. Rich grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago but now calls Macomb home. Rich has a B.A in Communication Studies with an Emphasis on Radio, TV, and Film from Northern Illinois University. Rich came to love radio in high school where he developed his “news nerdiness” as he calls it. Rich’s high school had a radio station called WFVH, which he worked at for a couple years. In college, Rich worked at campus station WKDI for three years, spinning tunes and serving at various times as General Manager, Music Director and Operations Manager. Before being hired as Tri States Public Radio’s news director in 1998, Rich worked professionally in news at WRMN-AM/WJKL-FM in Elgin and WJBC-AM in Bloomington. In Rich’s leisure time he loves music, books, cross-country skiing, rooting for the Cubs and Blackhawks, and baking sugar frosted chocolate bombs. His future plans include “getting some tacos.”
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Interim Police Chief Jeff Hamer said the investigation is ongoing and additional arrests are possible. -
Western Illinois University will continue offering its cost guarantee program for tuition, but it will no longer do the same for fees and room and board rates. -
On a sunny and warm late summer afternoon, Kelley Quinn of Macomb unveiled her latest piece of art. Her canvas is a vintage 1939 Farmall H tractor. It... -
Tuition will rise by 4% next school year at Western Illinois University. The increase applies only to new underclassmen and new graduate students. -
The presidents of Illinois' public universities believe the state should make it a higher priority to provide COVID-19 vaccinations for higher education... -
An expert believes the economy will look different as we rebound from the pandemic-related recession, and he said some post-pandemic economic trends are... -
Media outlets in other countries are closely following this year's presidential election in the United States. A couple researchers from Monmouth... -
Western Illinois University intends to hold in-person classes beginning August 24 in Macomb and the Quad Cities. But the union representing faculty... -
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has experienced unemployment figures not seen since the Great Depression. But Bill Polley, Associate... -
Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio announced it hired Dr. Jack Thomas to serve as the ninth president in school history. Central State is a...
