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You can combine a road trip in Southern Illinois with a little Christmas or birthday shopping and come back with a nice experience to show for the day as well as a unique gift to stash away for the appropriate occasion.

Mount Vernon is sometimes considered the northern gateway to all things Southern Illinois. At the crossroads of Interstate 64 and Insterstate 57 and just a few miles south of Interstate 70, the community hopes to draw people southward.

Southern Illinois used to gain national attention for riots and property damage on Halloween. Here's how the region cleaned up and replaced the drunken brawl with Halloween fun.

Are you planning on a trip to Southern Illinois? Then you just may want to have some fun while you're visiting. Southern Illinois offers a variety of annual festivals. While planning your trip be sure to schedule in some trips to our annual festivals.

Parades, entertainment, fairs and good food are just a taste of the diversity of summer events here in Southern Illinois. Are you ready to brave the scorching summer heat to enjoy some of the many summer events in Southern Illinois?

Illinois corn fields are being supplemented by Illinois vineyards thanks in large part to the recent growth in local wineries. Here's how it became a $20 million a year business in the heartland.

Winemaking in Illinois began in the mid 1800's with a Utopian sect called the Icarians. The Shawnee Hills Wine Trail was originally the brainchild of a retired SIU professor who started his own winery in 1984....

The 10-day Illinois State Fair in Springfield this year (Aug 8-17, 2008) will include performances each night from a range of artists including ZZ Top, Weird Al Yankovic, Brooks and Dunn, and Huey Lewis and the News.

An earthquake was felt at around 4:37am in Illinois and other parts of the midwest...

Robert Stroud (1890-1963), the Birdman of Alcatraz, is buried in Metropolis, Illinois, a town on the Ohio River, in the southernmost tip of Illinois. Metropolis is also the hometown of Superman, the only town in the entire country with that name.

U.S. Interstate 57 runs right through the middle of Marion, IL. If you're traveling I-57 and need to make a stop in Southern Illinois, Marion has plenty to offer you in the way of food, lodging and more. What's available in Marion?

There is more to Aurora than first meets the eye. I offer you these ten interesting facts.

A look into the cursed hollow that is Aurora Illinois

The Big Muddy Monster, a campus ghost, a phantom funeral procession, and more can be found in Southern Illinois.

An overview of geocaching, the newest high-tech treasure hunting craze as well as some great resources. Then the inside information you need to plan a trip to the gold mine of geocaches - southern Illinois! If you've never heard of geocaching - beware- it's addictive!

A lot of choices in Southern Illinois and neighboring St Louis for Independence Day celebrations.

An abandoned duffel bag disrupted classes in two buildings at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale on Wednesday while police investigated the threat.

The singing group calling itself the Five Bawdy Wenches have incorporated the Southern Illinois Ren Faire into its own entity and redesigned the fair for more fun.

Just a few of the many Southern Illinois wineries. Many of them offer award-winning wines.

The small and larger towns of Southern Illinois will celebrate Christmas in a variety of ways this holiday season thanks to Kris Kringle, Charles Dickens, Popeye, St. Nicholas, and the La Guianee singers.

Kansas defeated Southern Illinois 61-58 on Thursday night to advance to the Elite Eight.

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As part of his budget proposal, Governor Rod Blagojevich has planned changes to the Illinois Department of Corrections that will eliminate union jobs and replace them with political appointees.

On the evening of June 25, 1973, two young people heard the chilling, unearthly scream of some creature in the woods along the Big Muddy River south of Murphrysboro, Illinois.

Ulysses Grant commanded troops here and Union ships sought repairs at the Cairo naval yard. And, 200 years of American soldiers are represented in Mound City Naitonal Cemetery.

The child advocacy center in Mount Vernon, Illinois, serve a third of this big state and tries to teach children when they should call on adult for help.

The city of Marion, Illinois, has been fighting for 17 years to build a new city reservoir and chances are the fight will continue for several more years.

Among Southern Illinois's impressive scenic areas is Fern Clyffe State Park, located near Goreham, with forested remnants from a past ice age in the form of glacial rock formations, geologic faulting and erosion.

Nationally-known metal-worker and sculptor John Medwedeff found the charm and quiet comfort of Murphysboro, Illinois, made it the perfect place to locate his forge.

Illinois' largest state park is Pyramid State Park, located south of Pinckneyville in Perry County. Noted for heavily-forested hills and numerous lakes and ponds, the park measures 19,701 acres.

A look into what has become a tradition for people of the area to participate in reenacting a part of their region's history when it was untamed.

More than a dozen countries worldwide are represented by the women of Las Damas Latinas, who share a common language and something of a common culture. Together, they share their memories of the countries where they were born and a love of life.

The Peabody Energy project is the largest private capital project in the region. The 16-hundred megawatt power plant is designed to burn coal mined from an adjacent coal mine using the most advanced clean-coal burning technology.

The college experience is unlike any other. Most students are recent high school graduates who are leaving home for the first time, so it is important to find a school that will allow the student to feel most comfortable in his or her new surroundings.

For the last five years, sports fans across the country have watched the opening round of March Madness and asked, "What is a Saluki?" so here's the answer for a team anticipating another invitation to the Dance.

The decades-old Quatro's Deep Pan Pizza is a favorite of alumns and keeps appealing to each coming generation.

There are ten recognized stone forts, actually stone walls that enclosing a section projecting from high isolated bluffs of the Shawnee Hills, generally aligned east and west over a stretch between the Ohio River on the east and Mississippi River in the west.

Haunted houses, hayrides, parties, and a petting zoo with pumpkins and corn maze top the seasonal activities in Southern Illinois.

Crab Orchard Creek in southern Illinois overtopped its banks Wednesday and the water went to the closest, lowest place it could find -- a trailer parkw ith more than 70 households that were evacuated by boat.

The largest gathering of 18th century reenacters in the Midwest is gearing up for the weekend of June 7th and 8th, 2008, at Fort de Chartres State Historic Site in Randolph County, along the Mississippi River in Southern Illinois.

For such a small town with just 4,000 people, Chester, Illinois has a lot of ghost stories.

In 1982, an amateur treasure hunter, Russell E. Burrows, found a remote cave near his hometown of Olney in southern Illinois. He removed more than 7,000 artifacts from the cave and then sealed the entrance using dynamite, following the controversy over his discovery.

A nearly-century-old ghost oversees the Godfrey, Illinois campus of Lewis-Clark Community College, quietly haunting the 19th Century buildings amid the newer additions.

The tiny community of Metropolis, Illinois, decided decades ago that if Superman lived in the fictional city of Metropolis, they would adopt the comic book hero as their own. The town's devotion makes for a fun afternoon of Superman history.

Originally encountered by Marquette, the Piasa Bird's painted image can be found on the bluffs above Alton, Illinois today, overlooking the Mississippi River, as it has for hundreds of years past.

Illinois wineries are booming and to head off the competition, each one is trying to come up with the best flavored wine. Some of the new options are very creative and tasty.

J.C. Hagan has a sharp eye and keen wit for Illinois political analysis. It's a shame his take on the elections are right.

This is an article pointing out great tourist ideas near Valentine's Day.

A review of Morrelo's Pizza and Grill of Harrisburg, Illinois