Know Where to Go with the Illinois Official Highway Map

Know Where to Go with the Illinois Official Highway Map

Press Release from the Illinois Department of Transportation

SPRINGFIELD – The new Illinois Official Highway Map, featuring Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site in Petersburg on the cover, is now available. The 2017-2018 maps have QR (quick response) codes for numerous transportation and travel websites, updated route information and useful links.

“It’s time to update your maps,” said Illinois Transportation Secretary Randy Blankenhorn. “These maps are great to keep on hand while traveling throughout our state and are a helpful resource in emergency situations.”

Smartphone users can scan the QR codes printed on the maps for pertinent and timely information during their travels.

• QR codes:

o Getting Around Illinois website
o Amtrak and Illinois high-speed rail websites
o Start Seeing Motorcycles website
o Chicago and St. Louis traffic websites
o Alternative fuels website
o Enjoy Illinois website

• Additional websites:

o Illinois Scenic Byways
o Illinois Amber Alert
o Illinois State Police Scott’s Law (“move over law”)

Made possible by funding from the Federal Highway Administration, the Illinois Official Highway Map is published by the Illinois Department of Transportation every two years on recycled paper with soybean oil-based inks. Contact DOT.maps@illinois.gov to request a map. Free copies also will be available soon at interstate rest areas and at the IDOT tent at the Illinois State Fair, Aug 10-20.

Railroad crossing on Route 148 in Zeigler closed tomorrow and Thursday

Press release from the Illinois Department of Transportation, District 9 office

CARBONDALE, IL – Jeffrey L. Keirn, Region Five Engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation, announces that there will be a road closure at the railroad crossing on IL 148 at the north edge of Zeigler

This will begin Wednesday, July 26 at 8:00 am and concluding on Thursday, July 27 at 5:00 pm, crews from the Union Pacific Railway Company (UPRR) will be performing repairs on the railroad crossing on IL 148.

There will be no traffic permitted through the crossing during the repairs. Motorists should follow the marked detour or seek alternate routes to avoid delays.

Please slow down and use extreme caution while driving through all work zones.

Oklahoma teacher panhandles for money to buy classroom supplies

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/22/oklahoma-teacher-panhandles-for-money-to-buy-classroom-supplies.html

Tulsa, Okla., third-grade teacher Teresa Danks took to panhandling in order to raise money to buy classroom supplies.  (Fox 23 Tulsa)

TULSA, OK – (Fox News.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

A public school teacher has turned to panhandling at an Oklahoma interstate off-ramp to raise money to buy classroom supplies for her third-grade students.

Teresa Danks, a teacher in the Tulsa Public Schools system, stood at the busy Interstate-44 intersection Tuesday begging for spare change with a scrawled sign that said, “Teacher Needs School Supplies! Anything Helps.”

“All I want to do is give those kids the best,” Danks told Fox 23 Tulsa.

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Mt. Vernon High School superintendent talks new position, demolishing old high school

http://www.wsiltv.com/story/35959370/new-mt-vernon-high-school-superintendent-talks-new-position-demolishing-old-high-school

MT. VERNON, IL –  (Brandon Merano,  WSIL-TV.  Please click on the ling above for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

A new interim superintendent has taken the reigns of the Mt. Vernon high school district.

 

New MVTHS Superintendent Marylin Holt (WSIL photo)

Monday was Marilyn Holt’s second day on the job.

The veteran educator has more than 30 years of experience, and she’ll make $65,000 during the 100-day term of her contract

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She said she plans to help Mt. Vernon High School get out from under a financial cloud that built up over several years.

Consumer recall on Bush’s Baked Beans

by Steve Dunford

Several Media sources are reporting there is a recall on Bush’s baked beans because of a canning malfunction in the seams.

The cans that are recalled are 28oz Brown Sugar Hickory Baked Beans, Country Style Baked Beans, and original Baked Beans.

If you have any of these cans in your pantry, please throw away, return to your local supermarket, or call the consumer hotline at 1-800-590-3797.

Woman Has Wedding After Son Tragically Dies. Then He Shows Up, Leaving Everyone In Tears

Woman Has Wedding After Son Tragically Dies. Then He Shows Up, Leaving Everyone In Tears

(Abby Sensening, gladwire.com.  Please click on the link above for this uplifting story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Gladwire photo

It was finally the day. The day every woman waits for. Their wedding day. Becky Turney was so excited to walk down the aisle to her fiancé Kelly Turney. But there was just one thing missing. Her son Triston Green.

Triston had passed away at the young age of 19 just nearly 2 years ago. It was hard, and all she wanted was for him to be there with her. Little did she know that a part of him would be.

Back in 2015, Jason Kilby received a heart transplant that saved his life. And that heart belonged to Triston. Becky and Jacob had been in contact on various occasions, but they never actually met in person. So when he appeared at the wedding, Becky couldn’t control her excitement.

Cairo, Illinois: America’s Forgotten City

http://www.antiquearchaeology.com/blog/cairo-illinois-americas-forgotten-city/

NOTE:  This story back from 2016 was floating around social media from the Antique Archeology Website.  Since American Pickers is big in Southern Illinois, and anytime  I post that Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz will be in the area has a great response from you, I decided I would post this story.

The story is by Sarah Buckholtz.  I have posted stories in the past about the history of Cairo, and there is a huge response.  Please click on the link above for the full story.

 

Rangers take third in the 1933 IHSA State Tournament

by Steve Dunford

In this series, 1933 is the year district scores are added to the database I get the scores from years past from.  You will see scores from several schools throughout the county that no longer exist.

To see some of these across Southern Illinois, here is a link to the site

https://sites.google.com/site/xtmi2000/

The Rangers finished third in the IHSA State Tournament by defeating Gil;espie 36-18 in the third place game.  This is noteworthy, a Franklin County team finally got by the Canton Little Giants, as Benton picked up a 23-21 win.

On the Rangers road to Champaign, they picked up a four point win over the West Frankfort Redbirds, in the WF district tournament.

They won the Carbondale Sectional by blowing out the Metropolis Trojans 31-18.  In the quarterfinals and semi-finals, they had barnburners to Johnston City and Galatia.

Here is a full list of scores below.

WEST FRANKFORT DISTRICT TOURNAMENT

Benton 21-12 Zeigler
Nason 23-18 Waltonville
Ewing 34-22 Ina
Woodlawn 31-21 Thompsonville
McLeansboro 36-20 Macedonia
West Frankfort 36-24 Sesser
Benton 74-19 Nason
Woodlawn 25-24 Ewing
West Frankfort 42-20 McLeansboro
Benton 67-15 Woodlawn
Benton 21-17 West Frankfort

DU QUOIN DISTRICT TOURNAMENT

Vergennes 29-18 Tamaroa

DuQuoin 20-10 Christopher

Hurst-Bush 27-19 Valier

Hurst-Bush 37-20 Vergennes

DuQuoin 30-13 Ava

Murphysboro 33-19 Elkville

Hurst-Bush 21-19 DuQuoin

Hurst-Bush 35-27 Murphysboro

CARBONDALE SECTONAL TOURNAMENT

Herrin 51-19 Willisville

Metropolis 46-22 Hurst-Bush

Galatia 21-19 Cairo

Benton 18-16 Johnston City

Metropolis 34-24 Herrin

Benton 35-32 Galatia

Benton 31-13 Metropolis

 

BENTON (31): Wallace 12, Manis 9, Henry 7, Parrish 3.

METROPOLIS (13): Cagle 7, Kidd 3, Bean 3.

1933 IHSA STATE TOURNAMENT

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Quarterfinals

Springfield (H.S.) 30, Hutsonville 15

Gillespie 25, Chicago (Lake View) 23

Harvey (Thornton) 39, Mahomet 28

Benton 23, Canton 21 (2 OT)

Semifinals

Springfield (H.S.) 17, Gillespie 14

Harvey (Thornton) 28, Benton 19

Third Place

Benton 36, Gillespie 18

Championship

Harvey (Thornton) 14, Springfield (H.S.) 13

 

Salukis off season practice in full swing

The new man in the middle for SIU, Kavion Pippen. (WSIL-TV photo)

CARBONDALE, IL  –  There is a link below to the video from WSIL Sports Sean Conway with interviews with new Saluki big man Kavion Pippen, returning guard Sean Lloyd, and Coach Barry Hinson.

Size and outside shooting are the emphasis of this years team.  The Dawgs have confidence they can compete for a Missouri Valley crown.

http://www.wsiltv.com/story/35960837/new-faces-has-saluki-hoops-confident

Click on the link below to listen to a press conference from SIU Coach Barry Hinson from Saluki All Access.

Here is a link from the Voice of the Saluki’s Mike Reis interviewing SIU guard Armon Fletcher.

 

 

Harre wins 70th Annual Gold Cup

http://www.wsiltv.com/story/35951508/harre-wins-70th-annual-gold-cup

Jordan Harre – Champion of the Benton Gold Cup. (WSIL Photo)

BENTON, IL –  (Sean Conway, WSIL-TV.  Please click on the link above for the full story.  Here  is the excerpt below.)

Nashville’s Jordan Harre was the Champion of this years Benton’s Gold Cup.  Included in the full story is the top five of the tournament.

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