MACOMB, Ill., Aug. 19 -- Western Illinois University issued the following news release:
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MACOMB, IL - - Registration is now open for the 15th running of the Fallen Soldiers 5K. The 2026 run/walk will be held Saturday, Oct. 10 on the Western Illinois University Macomb campus.
The event honors members of the armed forces, as well as two fallen soldiers and WIU alumni, Capt. Derek Dobogai and Lt. Col. Robert Baldwin.
Dobogai graduated from WIU in 2003, with a bachelor's degree in Law Enforcement and Justice Administration. He was among 14 soldiers on a Black Hawk helicopter, which crashed in August 2007, in northern Iraq. Baldwin earned his bachelor's degree from WIU in Industrial Technology in 1993. He was killed in Septem...