Aledo

Well, I think that's a smart idea.

Well, I will always go Monticello because their head coach, Cully Walter, and his great family lived on South College Avenue in Aledo, and we're still sad that he moved away.

So I'm all in for the Monticello Sages.

I'm going to go 28-20.

So good to catch up, Rachel.

We're talking ahead of a big harvest weekend for your Aledo area farm family, and you get to spend some of that great time helping out with harvest.

I do.

I'm excited, Rita.

So we were talking off the air.

I live in Aledo.

And I know when they were doing renovation of the...

There's an old opera house in town, a movie theater.

I'm Jim O'Hara with news on Quad Cities NPR WVIK.

The city of Aledo, Illinois is undertaking its first development in over 50 years, building roads and infrastructure to serve a new neighborhood.

Here's WVIK's Joshua Traugott.

Called the Sponsor Manor 4th Edition, this project has entered Phase 2 of its plan to expand a subdivision on the north side of town.

The city approved a 50% lot incentive program to encourage new home construction, allowing qualified buyers to pay half the lot price at closing.

They then will forgive the remaining balance as a permissionary note once construction is complete.

Aledo Mayor Chris Haglock says the city is developing the lots in the TIF district, offering an incentive to home property buyers.

We found through conversation with other developers that they couldn't afford to purchase the property and put in the infrastructure.

Presented by Rex McWhorter with Yager Machinery.

This is your local Yager Machinery sales representative in Aledo.

Phone 309-337-1680.

Legal way out of the huddle here with one receiver right.

Sad news as our sideline reports presented by Orient True Value are not going to happen for the remainder of the game.

That's because our receiver just went out.

So we'll have to get that fixed when we get back to Aledo this week, getting set for the remainder of the playoffs.

We've had this for a long time, and I guess it just went...

If you have farmland or machinery to sell, call Dale at 309-299-6400.

And now from the Dale Jones Auctioneer Studios in downtown Aledo, here's Jim Taylor and Ty Taylor with Sportsline.

And hello everybody, good morning.

It is Sportsline from inside of the Dale Jones Auctioneer Studios in downtown Aledo on a Saturday morning.

Well, I guess I was going to say as we open the show, 384 teams still alive.

That's not the case as there were a number of Friday night games last night.

They didn't get El Paso-Gridley, and they didn't get Tri-Valley in the crossover games.

And the only other thing I'll say about Leroy that's interesting for me is and I know you'll hear it on the pregame today coming up in the noon hour, is basically they've had the same family coaching for, what, about like 40, 50, 60 years or something.

We're the Iowa Ghostbusters.

As I mentioned, I live in Aledo, Illinois.

Kyle lives on the Illinois side of Clinton.

We have members that stretch from Galena all the way to Des Moines.

Also free hot dogs, candy giveaways, and fun music.

Aledo United Methodist Church will have their trunk or treat from 5 to 7 p.m. That'll be located at 301 North College Avenue in Aledo.

Abundant Life Church, located at 4721 Northwest Boulevard in Davenport, will host their trunk or treat from 5.30 to 7 p.m. And finally, Brews Energy and Sherrard Fire Station.

They are on Main Street in Sherrard and their trunk or treat will be from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, October 31st.

It is the 35th annual WRMJ Pigskin Playoff Preview show.

It comes to you live from the downtown Aledo.

WRMJ Studios, one of the most exciting, maybe the most exciting day on the IHSA sports calendar every year.

We welcome you to our program here in 2026.

Then the 10 seed Villa Grove takes on 23 seeded Dupo.

The winner gets seven seed Salt Fork the Storm.

The Carlisle Indians, who played the Aledo Green Dragons for the 1988 state title game, they play 19 seeded Nokomis.

The winner of that game gets Calhoun.

Welcome into SportsLine.

We're inside the Dale Jones Auctioneer Studios live in downtown Aledo.

I'm Ty Taylor.

Jim Taylor is alongside, as always, and we have a full day of playoff coverage coming up on these WRMJ airwaves once again in 2026.

Now, the craziest one, and it...

This was confirmed, because I remember we were talking about, you know, with, with the expanded playoffs this year, is Mercer County, uh, going to get in? It doesn't look like they're going to get in, unfortunately.

And I remember in 1991, Aledo at the time, when there were, uh, six classes and 32 teams per class, they were kind of right on the bubble to get in, and they didn't learn that night in, uh, 1991, uh, that they weren't going to get in the playoffs.

I mean, it was like the 8:00 hour, that they were waiting.