PLANO, Texas, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Safety-Kleen today announced the opening of its Goodfield, IL, branch facility to provide customers in the Peoria, Bloomington and Galesburg metropolitan areas with industrial waste management services and a full-line of parts washing equipment and related services.

By TIM LANDIS Regional airports such as in Springfield, Bloomington, Champaign and Peoria are the most likely losers as major airlines continue to cut back, merge and go out of business as a result of high fuel prices.

By JOHN REYNOLDS Meteorologically, the winter of 2007-08 came to a close Friday, and it will go into the record book as the fourth wettest in Springfield since the book was created in 1879.

By TIM LANDIS Jim Lestikow isn't trying to revive plans for a single airport to serve Springfield, Bloomington and Peoria, among other central Illinois communities, but he likes the regional philosophy behind the idea floated nearly two decades ago.

By STEVE TARTER GATEHOUSE NEWS SERVICE PEORIA - The story on soybeans this year for farmer Matt Hughes is "better than expected." That's because intense August heat was thought to have reduced this year's crop, said Hughes, who farms 2,200 acres of corn and soybeans near Bloomington.