Communities throughout Central Illinois are gearing up to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of the holiday honoring one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Right...

Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 97 on Jan. 15, 2026, if the course of history had not unfolded as it did.

The keynote speaker of the breakfast will be U.S. Army Air Corps (ret.) Brig. Gen. Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse, who served with the famed 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-Black mili...