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PEORIA — In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called “the beginning of the end” of the pandemic. The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United States. Early studies have shown that after two doses that are given 21 days apart, the vaccine is 95% ...

A spiritual guru’s curious journey to becoming the first Indian filmmaker in the US Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar’s eventful life was marked by reinvention, intermittent success and scandal. AK Mozumdar and Kathryn McGuire | A clipping from The San Francisco Examiner, June 19, 1924. Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar was an unusual yogi. A slender man with a piercing gaze, who often dressed in robes, Mozumdar did not practice magical tricks, nor did he spout ancient eastern wisdom as other yogis and gurus of the time did. Instead, as Frederick Lieb, a popular journalist of the time, wrote, h...

MURRAY — Finding ways to preserve the oldest buildings on the Murray State University campus has become a top priority for its administrative officials the past few years. Where some were not able to be saved in the past, such as the former Ordway Hall and Woods Hall dormitory structures, others have received more attention. Now, one of the most recognized “older” buildings on the campus is in line for what is being seen as a badly-needed improvement to its HVAC and electrical system — Lovett Auditorium. Last week, the university’s Board of Regents unanimously approve...