Jeannine Otto

INDIANAPOLIS — Bridges, roads and sidewalks throughout rural Indiana will be getting repairs and upgrades, thanks to $155.6 million in federal funds.

PEORIA, Ill. — Bridges throughout Illinois are on the top of the priority list for a statewide infrastructure funding program.

PEORIA, Ill. — Driver and worker safety, especially in work zones, means more than a week in April, for the Illinois Department of Transportation and Mid-West Truckers Association.

For Doug McKalip, the chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, removing barriers to and boosting U.S. agricultural exports and trade is a work in progress.

If it sounds like the Dixon Police Department was taking summertime fun seriously, that is because they were. And they had the viral social media posts to show for it.

Whether it’s prescribing antibiotics for an infection, drugs to ease pain after surgical procedures, lifesaving insulin for diabetes or being a health-care provider for a rural community, rural pharmacists have always filled a unique role in the medical community.

Kyle Kellen doesn’t fly around Lee County in a traffic helicopter, but even so, when he’s off duty and out in public, he’s most likely to be recognized as the road-report deputy.

For Luke Schneider, military veteran, former firefighter and founder of Fire Department Coffee, the mission of his coffee company goes deeper than just a great cup of joe.

The Badd Axe Ladies firefighter training program is opening up new career options for young women.

When a prospective pharmacy student tells Dr. Heidi Olson that they’ve never thought about pharmacy as a career before, the director of the RPHARM program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine doesn’t take it personally. She’s been there herself.