The system stretches from southern Illinois into northern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said.
He was looking forward to returning home and attending Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville this fall, his father said.
The Illinois Department of Corrections announced Thursday the 59-year-old Peterson was transferred to Menard Correctional Center in southern Illinois.
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Freezing rain and sleet were forecast for southern Missouri, southern Illinois and Arkansas.
Scott, by contrast, entered the NFL in 2002 as an undrafted free agent linebacker out of unheralded Southern Illinois University.
Bittermann earned a bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University, which in 1989 named him the Southern Illinois University's Journalism Alumnus of the Year.
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In March, 1998, he was among the first inmates to be moved to Tamms, a new, high-tech supermax facility in southern Illinois.
Currently in Southern Illinois (he set out from Lewes, Delaware) and bound for Missouri via mostly rural roads, Damm starts each day at 7:00 AM.
He went to Southern Illinois University on a football scholarship.
Jeff Scates, a farmer in Southern Illinois, said about 75% of his family's farm was underwater last spring, and he didn't finish planting his corn crop until early June.
Perlman hired Edwin Hippo of Southern Illinois University, who'd studied catalytic coal-to-gas methods, while Mandell mounted a nationwide search for Nicholas Nahas, who'd developed crucial technologies while at Exxon in the 1970s.
Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.
But many here are beginning to brace for change as the Illinois Legislature considers regulations that could set off a rush among energy companies to drill deep in the southern Illinois bedrock for oil and natural gas.
About 500 miles away from the cornfields of southern Illinois, in Chicago, Ceres, the goddess of agriculture stands atop the city's board of trade, the place that claims to have invented futures trading in in the 19th Century.
Already, drillers have leased hundreds of thousands of acres throughout southern Illinois, including in scenic Johnson and Pope counties, which hasn't seen conventional drilling and where people aren't sure what to expect if a fracking rush becomes a reality.
Data from the National Drought Mitigation Center shows rainfall in the southern Illinois city of Carbondale totaled 7.5 inches from the start of March to last week, down from 30.3 inches last year and 16.8 inches in a normal year.
"Obama continues to maintain a 'home field advantage' in the southern Wisconsin counties that border Illinois, " Holland said.
That's the conclusion of an ever-gushing hydrant of research from academics, psychologists, economists and social scientists from places like the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Virginia.
An unusually animated Gore introduced Clinton in Illinois, with a sort of modified fiery-Southern-preacher style of oratory.
These give the companies the option to build there within the next 20 years, if they wish to do so. (Though Exelon has said it was only testing the waters for the licensing procedure and has no plans to build in Illinois.) Similar applications for a Dominion site in Virginia and a Southern Co. site in Georgia are pending.
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