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The Knox County Jail, located on the public square in Knoxville, is a former county jail used by Knox County, Illinois. Built in 1845, the jail was the second used in the county; it replaced a log jail which was thought to be insufficiently secure. Contractor Alvah Wheeler built the two-story brick building for $7,724.
The Franklin County Jail, located at 209 W. Main St. in Benton, is the former county jail of Franklin County, Illinois. The jail was built in 1905–06 to replace the county's previous jail, which was built in the 1840s after the county seat moved to Benton. Architect Joseph W. Royer designed the jail; the brick building features limestone trim ...
U.S. Route 50 (US 50) in the state of Illinois is an east–west highway across the southern portion of the state. It runs from the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, over the Mississippi River, to Missouri east, to the Red Skelton Memorial Bridge, over the Wabash River and to Indiana.
U.S. Route 40 (US 40) runs east–west across south central Illinois for 159.8 miles (257.2 km). US 40 enters the state from Missouri across the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River at East St. Louis concurrent with Interstate 55 (I-55) and I-64 and exits just south of State Line, Indiana, running concurrently with I-70.
The building also included the county sheriff's residence, which was separated from the jail by 13 inches (330 mm) of concrete and two steel doors. A verandah over the jail's front porch was accessible from the sheriff's residence; the verandah was also used by armed guards during the Klan War.
It remained decommissioned until 1972 when a section of US 30 Alt. west of Westchester was replaced with IL 38; the rest of US 30 Alt. was removed without any replacement route designations. [6] In 1914, one mile of a road near Malta, Illinois, was paved with concrete. This was the first "Seedling Mile" of the concrete road on the Lincoln Highway.
State Road 352 (SR 352) is an east–west state road in Indiana, United States. The western terminus is at an intersection with Illinois Route 9 and Indiana State Road 26 . The highway heads north then turns eastwards, passing through Ambia , Boswell , and Oxford before ending at U.S. Route 52 (US 52), near Templeton .
Ina is located along Illinois Route 37 which is the village's Main Street, and Interstate 57 runs through the west side of town, with access from Exit 83. Mount Vernon, the Jefferson county seat, is 11 miles (18 km) to the north, and Benton is the same distance to the south.