Category Archives: Weekends on WMCI

MATTOON - A series of activities planned for Friday launches the Makers Space area on the second floor young adult/children's area of the Mattoon Public Library. Four different activities are planned ...

EIU women's soccer will play the Hope For Hannah soccer match on October 11th against Southeast Missouri. The match will be played in honor of current EIU women's soccer player Hannah Heinz, who was d...

Illegal College Basketball Recruitment Trial Underway (New York, NY) -- The first of several trials involving alleged illegal college basketball recruiting is underway in Manhattan Federal Court. An A...

Las Vegas Shooting Victims Remembered (Las Vegas, NV) -- It's been one year since 58 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a gunman opened fire at country music festival in Las Vegas. A nu...

The Five Mile House Fall Festival is this Sunday (10/7) from 1-4 p.m. They'll have live music, crafts, petting zoo, cooking, blacksmithing, weaving, knitting, apple cider pressing and other demonstrat...

SPRINGFIELD - Michael Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles, was voted the top athlete in Illinois history by participants in the Illinois Top 200 project, followed by Bears stars Dick B...

Lake Land College Dedicates and Renames Hall in Honor of Sixth President Lake Land College dedicated and renamed its Net Zero Energy Building to Lensink Hall in posthumous honor of its sixth president...

The Illinois Old Time Fiddle Contest will be held this Sunday (10/7) at the Effingham Performance Center. The contest is part of "Fiddle Fest," a benefit concert that starts on Saturday (10/6). Any fi...

Registration is open for the Mattoon Youth Wrestling Club. Cost is $75 and $55 for each additional sibling. The fee covers the entire season which runs from mid-November through mid-March. Scholarship...

Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lincoln IL 607 AM CDT Tue Oct 2 2018   This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Illinois, east central Illinois, southeast Illi...