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An Illinois Department of Transportation road closure map showed the following roads in the East St. Louis area and Cahokia Heights were closed at 3 p.m. due to flooding: Interstate 255 southbound ...
Mascoutah and Belleville fire departments are on the scene of an area near Illinois Route 158 and Keck Road for a water rescue, according to the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency. 11:46 ...
Flooding from a heavy rainstorm Tuesday in southwest Illinois damaged houses and cars, closed roads, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and eroded part of a levee, according to community leaders.
The July 2023 Chicago Area Flood was caused by a heavy rainfall that occurred on July 2, 2023, in the Chicago Metropolitan Area of northeastern Illinois. Rainfall up to 9.0 inches (23 cm) occurred over an 18-hour period; the majority occurred from early in the morning to late in the afternoon. [ 1 ]
Illinois Route 47 (IL 47) is a 169.76-mile-long (273.20 km) largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 near Hebron, to IL 10, just south of Interstate 72 (I-72) near Seymour. [1]
Illinois's state route numbers originated in 1918 as State Bond Issues 1 through 46, used to finance the new roads. The numbers of the bond issues were then used to mark the highway routes along the way. Another series of bond issues were authorized in 1924 (47–185) and again were used to mark the roads they paid for.
Illinois State Police Trooper Joshua Robinson said in a statement that District 11 troopers responded to about 25 traffic crashes and assisted 27 drivers from midnight to 1:36 p.m. Tuesday in the ...
Up until 1935, Illinois Route 28 roughly followed US 34 from Galesburg to Sheffield. Also, a part of IL 8 followed part of US 34 from Burlington to Galesburg. [ 4 ] In 1935, US 34 absorbed what had been the last remaining section of US 32 as well as IL 18, IL 28, and a portion of IL 8.