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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 ...
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.
At its peak, Harrisburg's population reached 16,000 by the early 1930s. The city had one of the largest downtown districts in Southern Illinois. [5] The city was the 20th-most populated city in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area and the most-populous city in Southern Illinois outside the Metro East in 1930. [6]
Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.It is a part of the Metro East in southern Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 264,776, [1] making it the eighth-most populous county in Illinois and the most populous in the southern portion of the state.
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 .
A former resident of the Illinois town suggested the change. Centralia's city flag was designed in 1924 by Wendell Bauer, whose design was awarded first prize in a community-wide design competition. [6] A broad red stripe through the center of the flag represents the railroads to which the city owes its existence.
Climatological Data National Summary. 8 (12). Asheville, North Carolina: National Climatic Data Center: 522– 531. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014. Mason, Angela (2011). Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. Rockford, IL: Black Oak Media. ISBN 978-1-61876-001-2. "Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena ...