EAST PEORIA - "Justin and Darcie.""Ethan + Savannah.""Jarrod & Tracie."The names go on and on and on, marking hundreds of padlocks attached to the fencing around the gazebo at Riverfront Park in East Peoria.

KICKAPOO - A Peoria man was identified Saturday as the victim in a fatal, two-vehicle accident Friday morning north of Kickapoo.

As Apollo 11's command module sped back to Earth, it was a central Illinoisan at the helm of the ship recovering astronauts from their ocean splashdown.

PEORIA - Lisa Parr and her son, Donovan, of Pekin won money to help them get a wheelchair accessible car.

ROCKFORD - Fifty years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, some of the region's rocket scientists are recalling how the historic mission inspired them to work in the space program - and predicting that the U.S. will resume crewed space missions to the moon and beyond.