What once was Tannins & Hops Speakeasy soon is to be Mack's. Perhaps as soon as Friday. The new bar and soon-to-be restaurant is to open at 619A SW Water St.

(NOTE: Nick in the Morning will be heading off on vacation for a while. Not too long, because we don't want you to miss us too badly.

In that newspapers are not washing machines, it's not always a good idea to try to clean dirty laundry in public.

LACON - Accused murderer Gary Berchtold of rural Edelstein will not go to trial in Marshall County until at least next year on charges of killing a missing Peoria County woman and burning her body, a brief court hearing Wednesday determined.

PEORIA - The meeting happened face-to-face in Chicago over the summer.