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On December 26, 2012 WRIK-FM rebranded as "Jelli 98.3", keeping its hot AC format, and changed its call sign to the current WJLI, and added 6 hours of user-controlled content per day, from 6PM-12M 7 days a week.
Harrah's Metropolis is a riverboat casino located on the Ohio River in Metropolis, Illinois. It opened in 1993 as Players Island , a joint venture between Players International and show business impresario Merv Griffin as one of the state's first casinos.
Metropolis is a city and the county seat in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It is located by the Ohio River. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,969, [2] down from 6,537 in 2010. [3] Metropolis is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area in Southern Illinois.
Three days later, Metropolis Mayor Don Canada — who in 2021 had appointed Anderson, his pastor, to an open seat on the City Council — took a stand of his own.
Massac County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 14,169. [1] Established in 1843 and named for a French fort founded in the 18th century, its county seat is Metropolis. [2]
Operation Bittersweet was a sting operation in the 1980s in which the U.S. Department of Justice caught companies illegally importing sugar from foreign countries in violation of the U.S. Customs Service's 1984 restrictions on the importation of sugar products. The sting resulted in 30 companies being implicated and over US$16 million in fines.
The airport was dedicated in 1947 as part of Metropolis's post-WWII development plan. [1] The airport originally had a 2800-foot blacktop runway and a 3300-foot turf runway. [1] [2] For 18 years ending in 2006, the airport hosted a competition for remote-controlled model jets, which attracted as many as 200 participants. [3]
The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is a professional theatre company [1] [2] in Arlington Heights, Illinois, founded in 2000. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] They often have over 300 performances of more than 40 different productions with over 70,000 patrons each season.