[BlessedBeGod]

Checked the Trib, the Sun-Times, the Bloomington Pantagraph, the Springfield paper, and the AP wire. Nothing.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch and/or St. Louis-area TV/radio stations would be more likely to carry something happening around Carbondale than any of the news orgs. you mentioned above. It's the far-downstate mentality, you see. They associate MUCH more so with St. Louis as their "big city" than Chicago.