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Eldorado (/ ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r eɪ d oʊ,-d ə /) is a city in Saline County, Illinois, United States.The population was 4,122 at the 2010 census, with a 1980 peak of 5,198.Although the city's name is spelled as if it were Spanish, the name was originally "Eldereado" or "Elder-Reado" (depending on the source)—a combination of the last names of the town's two founders, [2] [3] Judge Samuel ...
Illinois 13 runs southeast from the St. Louis, Missouri area to Carbondale. It is the main highway between these two cities. It is the main highway between these two cities. Starting in Centreville, IL 13 begins at the IL 157/IL 163 junction.
Chicago and Carbondale Railroad: IC: 1895 1895 Chicago and Texas Railroad: Chicago Central Railway: B&O: 1889 1891 Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad: Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad: C&O: 1907 1910 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Indiana: Chicago, Danville and St. Louis Railroad: C&EI: 1887 1887 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
The second major newspaper is The Eldorado Daily Journal, based in Eldorado [92] and operated by GateHouse as a sister newspaper to the Register. Newspapers are also delivered into the city from as far away as Evansville, Chicago, and St. Louis. It is often included in the Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area.
U.S. Route 54 (US 54) is an east–west United States Highway that runs northeast–southwest for 1,197 miles (1,926 km) from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois.The Union Pacific Railroad's Tucumcari Line (former Southern Pacific and Rock Island Lines "Golden State Route") runs parallel to US 54 from El Paso to Pratt, Kansas, which comprises about two-thirds of the route.
The route was established in the 1920s, when SH 133 began at SH 135 in Bardine and ended at Carbondale. SH 133 was then reroutes from SH 135 at Crested Butte to Carbondale by 1936. The route's south terminus was adjusted back to Bardine in 1939, and a small gap at McClure pass was opened.
It is the third largest community in the Harrisburg Micropolitan Statistical Area outside of Eldorado and Harrisburg, and included in the Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky Tri-State Area. [2] Carrier Mills also has a large African American population at 15%, compared to its neighbors, due to migration from the nearby community of Lakeview , the oldest ...
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.