Du Quoin Main Street was accepted in the Illinois Main Street program on November 9, 2005.  The main street program’s purpose is to revitalize the downtown district with established businesses. Du Quoin is unique with the historic buildings still in tact.  The Grand Theater has been renovated and has three shows available to the people.  […]

A steady rain came down on those of us in attendance for the ceremony marking the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” The tribute to veterans, young and old… living and deceased, took place in front of the Veterans Depot Museum next to the railroad tracks in the heart of downtown […]

Volunteers are the backbone of any community that is thriving and progressing. I look around at the projects that West Frankfort has taken on in the last few years and I am simply amazed. Young and old, skilled and unskilled, business and churches have come together to accomplish projects not for themselves but for others. […]