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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The video Western entered features the Marching Leathernecks performing four Metallica songs. -
The centers will be in Beardstown and Springfield, and there are plans to open centers in Monmouth and Peoria too. -
Title IX went into effect fifty years ago, on June 23, 1972. The civil rights law is often associated with sports but its scope is much wider. -
In-person early voting begins Wednesday in Iowa and Thursday in Illinois for next month’s primaries. -
Unforgettable Forgottonia bought a 1939 edition of The Landlord’s Game early this year for a bit more than $1,000. -
New legislative maps won't deter two of the region's state representatives from running again. -
Black students at Western Illinois University's Macomb campus say they are not seeing any progress on a list of demands they issued to the university... -
Some school districts across the nation don't have enough bus drivers, while other districts say they're getting by. TSPR spoke with a with a couple... -
It's been nearly a year since Kavion Poplous shot his roommate in a Western Illinois University dorm, and three months since he pleaded guilty to a... -
A new settlement agreement is in the works between Western Illinois University and its former president, Dr. Jack Thomas.
