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The Illinois River Road: Route of the Voyageurs is a National Scenic Byway in Central Illinois, United States. It traverses a set of roadways on both sides of the Illinois River, primarily between Ottawa, Illinois to the north, and Havana, Illinois to the south. Along its route are nature areas, cities and towns, museums and other attractions.
The Illinois Central Missouri River Bridge, also known as the IC Bridge or the East Omaha Bridge, is a rail through truss double swing bridge across the Missouri River connecting Council Bluffs, Iowa, with Omaha, Nebraska. It is owned by the Canadian National Railway and is closed to all traffic. At 521 feet long, the second version of the ...
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]
U.S. Route 136 (US 136) runs east–west across central Illinois for 225.5 miles (362.9 km). US 136 enters the state from Iowa across the Keokuk–Hamilton Bridge over the Mississippi River between Keokuk, Iowa, and Hamilton, Illinois, and exits into Indiana east of Danville.
IL 143 east / Great River Road south / Meeting of the Great Rivers south to IL 140 – Wood River: Southern end of Great River Road and Meeting of the Great Rivers overlaps: 1.4: 2.3: IL 100 north (Broadway) / Great River Road north / Meeting of the Great Rivers north – Grafton, Pere Marquette State Park: Northern end of Great River Road and ...
During the Great Flood of 1993, the rising Mississippi temporarily made the Keokuk–Hamilton Bridge inaccessible from the Illinois side of the river; later, gravel was layered over the threatened section of U.S. 136 to raise its level and keep the road and bridge accessible for the remaining flood period.
Keith Farrelle Cozart (born August 15, 1995), [5] better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper and record producer.Born and raised in Chicago's South Side, he began his recording career as a teenager and initially garnered regional attention and praise for his mixtapes in the early 2010s. [6]
Following the completion of the Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge in 1985, the US Route 136 traffic was rerouted there, and the upper deck of this bridge, on the Keokuk side, was converted to an observation deck to view the nearby lock and dam; this deck is no longer used for road traffic, but the lower deck is still used for rail traffic. The bridge was ...