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Logo of The Southern Illinoisan (August 13, 2014) 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 ...
A 31-year-old woman from Marion died in a three-vehicle crash Friday on a southern Illinois highway, according to authorities.. Illinois State Police had not released the woman’s name as of ...
Betty Lou Hill Mitchell [4] "Humanities Lounge In Memory of Betty Mitchell" Unknown In front of a tree along W. Grand Avenue north of Altgeld Hall Memorial Robert Ridgway "In Memoriam Robert Ridgway 1850 - 1929" Unknown Near the circle and flagpole where W. Grand Avenue meets S. Normal Avenue Landmark Stone Post Remnants
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.
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 ...
Robert Lee Butler (January 23, 1927 – April 22, 2019) served as the mayor of Marion, Illinois from May 1963 until he resigned on January 31, 2018, for health reasons. At the time of his resignation, he was the second longest-serving mayor in the United States.
Marion in 1938. Following the creation of Williamson County out of the south half of Franklin County by the Illinois General Assembly, three commissioners appointed by the lawmakers met at Bainbridge, Illinois, on August 19, 1839, for the purpose of locating a new county seat as close to the center of the county as possible.
WSIL-TV was the first television station in southern Illinois, debuting on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 22 on December 6, 1953. It soon affiliated with ABC and NBC before moving to channel 3 in 1959 and becoming a sole ABC affiliate.