This bridge connects the southern tip of Illinois, just south of Cairo, to Mississippi County in Missouri. The Illinois Department of Transportation and Governor JB Pritzker sent out a release ...

Illinois and Missouri leaders set aside past differences over a new Mississippi River bridge on Monday, turning over shovels full of dirt from both states in a ceremonial groundbreaking on the ...

To protect Cairo and surrounding communities on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, the Corps set aside 130,000 acres between the Missouri communities of Bird’s Point and New Madrid to ...