WFIW News Director Jeff Vaughan has announced he will leave the radio station on July 1st. Vaughan began working in the news department in August 2018 under the late Mike Dreith, former Fairfield Mayor and former Station Manager. Vaughan is on assignment for the next several days but will return on the 28th for the Illinois primary election. The region experienced another earthquake Thursday morning . The magnitude 2.5 tremor was recorded four miles east-southeast of Parkersburg. Officials recorded the quake at 7:14 Thursday morning. Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey reported the tremor originated at a depth of approximately 20 kilometers. The last major earthquake to rattle Southern Illinois was a magnitude 5.2 earthquake on April 18, 2008 and was centered near West Salem. Hamilton Memorial Hospital District has been cleared to accept emergency room patients. All emergency patients will continue to enter through the front of the hospital, proceed to the ED waiting room, and pi