Skip to Main Content
The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

  • Welcome back to the Daily Eastern News!
  • Check out our podcasts on Spotify!
  • Check out our newsletters on Overlooked!
The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Vaccinated Illinois residents to be entered in lottery

Staff Report June 22, 2021

Illinois residents who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 will automatically be entered in a lottery with cash prizes up to $1 million. The “All In for the Win” lottery will give out $7 million...

Historical, modern perspectives of vaccination controversy

Logan Raschke, Editor-in-Chief May 12, 2019

It all started with a study. In the early 1990s, a group of British researchers published a study in The Lancet that showed people who received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination were more likely...

Mumps cases diagnosed on campus

Mackenzie Freund, City Editor September 14, 2015

Eastern has had two confirmed cases of the mumps virus with others being evaluated as of Monday. As of Sunday, there have been 177 reported cases of mumps with 128 of them associated with the outbreak...

Vaccinations should not be ignored

Mace Mackiewicz, Copy Editor September 2, 2015

When we were kids many of us feared shots and vaccines. A fear of needles is pretty common amongst people, a sharp metal object being pushed into our skin is naturally terrifying. Today it seems everywhere...

Load More Stories