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10/04/2025

Watch WJBD's livestream of the Little Egypt Festival Parade in Salem:

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10/04/2025

Kaskaskia College President George Evans says despite the shrinking population of counties that make up the co...

10/04/2025

State Rep. Blaine Wilhour announced the following dates, times, and locations for his Traveling Office Hours p...

10/02/2025

Salem Police arrested 54-year-old Steven Smith of 617 West Main on Wednesday for setting a fire in the basemen...

10/02/2025

https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/10/01/fire-destroys-condemned-home-on-salems-south-side/

The State Fire Marshal's office has joined Salem Fire and Salem Police in investigating the cause of a suspici...

10/02/2025

A vacant Mt. Vernon home was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Mt. Vernon firemen say heavy smoke was coming ou...

10/02/2025

A 13-year-old Centralia juvenile boy was transported to SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia for treatm...

10/02/2025

The Centralia High School Marching Showcase won every award for which they were eligible at the EIU Panther Ma...

10/02/2025

Some tickets are still available for the Saturday performances of Tales from East Lawn that portrays the life ...

10/02/2025

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is reminding hunters of key dates, regulatio...

10/01/2025

Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic

1. The average person sleeps for six hours and 31 minutes on weekdays, and seven hours and 22 minutes on weekends.

2. Voiceovers in movie trailers became rare in 2008 after the man who did more than 5,000 voiceovers, Don LaFontaine, died. He's the guy who's well-known for the phrase, "In a world . . ."

3. Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan. The Disney parks in Florida cover 43 square miles, and Manhattan is 22 square miles. It also means Disney World is roughly the same size as San Francisco.

4. The urine of a diabetic contains so much sugar . . . that it can be purified and made into a high-end single malt whiskey.

5. For almost all of the 1800s, maps of Africa had a mountain range called the Mountains of Kong . . . which didn't actually exist. They still show up once in a while on modern maps . . . an atlas from 1995 even had them.