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For A Better Tomorrow will honor 33 local teens and young adults for community service and leadership at the YICU Service Awards Celebration on Nov.

8 in Bloomington (attendance and award categories were not listed).

Former U.S. diplomat Gordon Duguid will give a lecture on foreign relations on Nov.

9 at Illinois State University in Normal.

Former 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley linked leadership, character, and the search for meaning in a talk Tuesday night at Illinois State University's Braden Auditorium as part of the Presidential Speaker Series.

He used examples including Volodymyr Zelensky, Nadia Murad, and 9/11 firefighter Orio Palmer and took audience questions about journalism and artificial intelligence (audience Q&A).

Peter Sagal will tape Wait Wait ...

Don't Tell Me on Nov. 12 at ISU's Braden Auditorium (Not My Job guest Brendan Hunt will join him) with panelists Paula Poundstone, Shane O'Neill, and Adam Burke; tickets are now available and the episode will air on NPR stations a few days later.

Illinois State University's College of Education inducted seven alumni into its Hall of Fame this week to honor their leadership, innovation, and long careers in local schools.

The McLean County Regional Planning Commission is asking residents to complete two surveys by Sunday, Nov.

1 to help shape a 25-year countywide transportation plan and a Region 6 human services transit plan; one survey covers roads, rails, sidewalks and air and is available online and on paper (MTP 2055).

25News Eco-Watch visits Miller Park Zoo to highlight ongoing conservation efforts for the monarch butterfly.

The zoo hatches, tags & tracks the pollinators as part of a broader initiative addressing habitat loss across North America.

America’s Gold Star Families and the Sgt. Anthony Maddox Memorial will host Fallen Hero Tree of Honor lighting ceremonies in central Illinois November.

Three events are scheduled in Decatur (Nov. 12), Peoria (Nov. 14), and Bloomington (Nov. 18), plus a public display at the Kankakee County Museum beginning Dec. 3.