COLLINSVILLE — A movement to designate Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site as part of the National Park System may be picking up again. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have reintroduced a ...
CHICAGO -- While she was teaching, architectural historian Sally A. Kitt Chappell specialized in modern buildings and city planning, but in retirement she has turned her eyes to some of Illinois' ...
Visitors to Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site can climb 156 steps up Monk’s Mound, the largest earthen structure north of Mexico. Joshua Carter Belleville News-Democrat Uniquely is a series of ...
A pre-Columbian metropolis named Cahokia was one of the first cities in North America. It was also very large, and in its heyday, it was bigger than many modern cities like London. The city was spread ...
ON A CLEAR DAY, if you climb the 144 steps to the top of Monks Mound in Southern Illinois, you can make out the skyline of St. Louis, a bustling modern city. But had you climbed those stairs 700 years ...
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