There is one inmate sentenced to jail in Knox County set to be released from the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections during the week ending Dec. 10.
If the internet had existed in 1890, Oscar Zimmerman likely would have started the first shave club for men. Born in 1855 in Chicago to a Prussian-born liquor merchant, the talented tonsorial artist had come to Monmouth as a young man, where he apprenticed under Morris Scheibel, a German barber who operated a shop under Union Hall on South Main and later on Market Alley.