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The Southern Illinoisan is a daily newspaper and multimedia news platform based in Carbondale, Illinois, known locally as "The Southern." It is one of the major regional newspaper and media services for southern Illinois. The most recent editor of The Southern Illinoisan was 22-year-old Jackson Brandhorst, a native of Carbondale, Illinois. [2]
Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 25,083, making it the most populous city in Southern Illinois outside the Metro East region of Greater St. Louis .
WSIU (91.9 FM, "Powered by You") is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk/information and classical music format. [2] Licensed to Carbondale, Illinois , the station serves Southern Illinois . The station is currently owned by Southern Illinois University Carbondale and features programming from American Public Media , National Public Radio ...
Southern Illinois Normal College was chartered by an act of the Twenty-Sixth Illinois General Assembly on March 9, 1869, the second state-supported normal school to be created in Illinois. [10] Carbondale was selected to host the university and a cornerstone-laying ceremony was held on May 17, 1870. [ 11 ]
Southern Illinois University Press was founded by President Delyte Morris in the mid-1950s, and its first book—Charles E. Colby's A Pilot Study of Southern Illinois—was published on October 20, 1956. Publishing primarily in the humanities and social sciences, in a wide range of subject areas: art and architecture, classical studies, history ...
Map of Illinois highlighting the Metro Lakeland region. Metro Lakeland is a name that was coined in the 1960s for an area of southern Illinois that is centered on the intersections of Interstate 57, Interstate 24, and Illinois Route 13—a four-lane east-west highway connecting the communities of Murphysboro, Carbondale, Carterville, Herrin, Marion, and Harrisburg.
The Daily Egyptian, formally known as the Normal Gazette and later changed to The Egyptian in 1916, was the first newspaper at Southern Illinois University. It consisted of eight pages and was printed monthly by the Free Press Printing House of Carbondale, Illinois in 1888 to 1889. [1] The subscription cost was fifty cents per year.
WXAN is a radio station airing a Southern Gospel Music format licensed to Ava, Illinois, broadcasting on 103.9 MHz FM.The station serves the areas of Carbondale, Illinois, Murphysboro, Illinois, Du Quoin, Illinois, and Pinckneyville, Illinois and is owned by Danny Hood, through licensee Mountain Valley Media LLC.