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Southern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois comprising the southern third of the state, principally south of Interstate 70.Part of downstate Illinois, it is bordered by the two most voluminous rivers in the United States: the Mississippi below its connection with the Missouri River to the west and the Ohio River to the east and south, with the tributary Wabash River, extending ...
"To celebrate Southern Illinois University's 150th anniversary and its rich and storied history, the SIU Alumni Association created the Saluki Alumni [...]" 2019 East side of Lawson Hall along a sidewalk Memorial Walter L. Sipple, Jr. "Foster Holly Planted December 2004 In Honor of Walter L. Sipple, JR." 2004 December
415 Jersey Street. In 1835, Dr. Richard Eells built his house, which now is part of both the Downtown Quincy Historic District and the South Side German Historic District. . Eells was an outspoken abolitionist in his community, offering runaway slaves shelter on their way no
The Kincaid Mounds Historic Site (11MX2-11; 11PO2-10) [3] c. 1050–1400 CE, [4] is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the southern tip of present-day U.S. state of Illinois, along the Ohio River.
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
The Shawnee Hills are a region within the larger Interior Low Plateaus physiographic province located in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and western Kentucky. [1] In Illinois it rests mainly in an east–west arc roughly following the outline of the southern end of the Illinois Basin .
The central Illinois chapter includes Cass, Christian, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Montgomery, and Sangamon counties, although the group's 50 members were all from Sangamon County. There were 600 ...
East St. Louis is in the Metro East region of Southern Illinois. Once a bustling industrial center, like many cities in the Rust Belt, East St. Louis was severely affected by the loss of jobs due to the flight of the population to the suburbs during the riots of the late 1960s. In 1950, East St. Louis was the fourth-largest city in Illinois ...