Do you live along the Route 45 corridor? We want to hear from you. Please use the comment tool to share your ideas.
Also, we are keeping an open mind about the sections of the site, so if we missed an area you would like to see us cover, please comment.
Someone can write this page via the administrative interface.
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The div class demo-img demo-img-tabmakes these three minis align on one tab.
So if you want to edit this is an example of the code to make 3 minis appear.
U.S. Highway 45 was once a thriving vein in the national highway system. Many of the towns in Southern Illinois exist because of this highway. But after Interstate 57 was constructed, these towns were left to grow on their own. The communities that remain around Rt. 45 today, though faced with dwindling populations and economic decline, are full of hardworking and kind people with a deep well of stories to tell. It is the goal of the Muddy to Metropolis project to preserve these stories. We hope to give a voice to the rich history of these communities and the men and women who call them home.
All journalistic skills and tools will combine to produce a report on a public issue important to southern Illinois. The report will be published both in hard copy and on the web. Students will have an opportunity to hone skills they already have learned or to learn new skills that broaden their repertoire.
Mission of the SIUC School of Journalism
The School of Journalism at SIUC occupies a national leadership role in mass communication education with a comprehensive program combining a broad knowledge of the liberal arts with a detailed understanding of the practice of journalism in modern society.
The curriculum prepares students for positions of responsibility in advertising and related marketing communications fields, news-editorial journalism, photojournalism, web production and other fields in which the ability to communicate to a mass audience is essential.
From coal mining to bingo, we have been looking around the area.
It would be great to put a few pics up and write more about this stuff.
more about the project
