Du Quoin
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Oct 17, 2026
Russell ConwellHOST
Everybody's all big about 4A football, obviously, and you got the big schools.
Russell ConwellHOST
But you look at 2A football, those are your smaller schools, but you got Nashville, Flora, Du Quoin, Sparta, West Frankfort.
Russell ConwellHOST
Oh yeah, I forgot.
Russell ConwellHOST
Hey, we have JC in there as well, JC who's been running 2A south for the most part.
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Russell ConwellHOST
Week One, you played Benton, the, now Benton-
Scott HudsonGUEST
It was a tight game
Russell ConwellHOST
... have been 7 and 1 now, and you guys lost 18-6, and you guys were up 20 to 14 on Du Quoin at the half, and you guys lost by a touchdown to Murphy on the road.
Russell ConwellHOST
I mean, what's it mean to, you know, just be competitive and bring back the Herrin Tiger spirit?
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
We remained at Camp Butler about two weeks, foot drilling in squads and practicing the manual drill with wooden sabers.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
From there we were transferred to Carbondale, where we commenced drilling with horses, but for want of a satisfactory parade ground, we were compelled to move to Du Quoin, where we were subjected to a rigid, steady drill.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
The men were in earnest, and each did his best.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
The company's reward was the letter A, of which we were justly proud.
Will ErnestHOST
Um, Gateway's back on the ARCA schedule.
Will ErnestHOST
They dropped Pocono off of it, and then of course you have Chicagoland coming back, along with the two dirt tracks with Springfield and DuQuoin.
Will ErnestHOST
Um, interestingly, they moved Springfield to, like, I wanna say, like, Sunday, Oc- or August 8th, I think is when it is.
Will ErnestHOST
Um, but what's crazy is Bristol, they're, they're racing at Bristol that Thursday.
Bret VoelkelGUEST
Yeah.
Bret VoelkelGUEST
So the turning point for Air Ride Technologies is when I showed up in that car At, um, Du Quoin, Illinois for the Street Machine Nationals in 1996.
Bret VoelkelGUEST
And, um-
Josh HenningHOST
I bet Tim Strange was there
Travis SeverinHOST
Well, s- I made, I te- I make [laughs], make Tyler McConnell do this.
Travis SeverinHOST
Tyler McConnell, we had him on last week from Du Quoin, just signed a scholarship to go to SEMO, Southeast Missouri, for, for f- football.
Travis SeverinHOST
Hold your hands up, Kenny.
Travis SeverinHOST
Like, God, wide receivers, man.
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Samuel BlumhorstGUEST
Mm.
Travis SeverinHOST
Right? I know you think about this.
Travis SeverinHOST
I know you don't wanna think too much about it, but if you can beat Du Quoin Friday night, you're not a three-way conference champ, you're a conference champ.
Samuel BlumhorstGUEST
I, I don't look at it like that.
Sheila BrummerCORRESPONDENT
I'm Sheila Brummer, IPR News.
Mike MurrayHOST
More than one million people visited Illinois' state fairs in Springfield and Du Quoin this year.
Mike MurrayHOST
Capital News Illinois reports it's the second consecutive year the attendance topped one million.
Mike MurrayHOST
The fairs set new attendance records, including a new single-day high for attendance at the Springfield Fair, fueled by sold-out concerts.
Sam MadoniaHOST
There are two State Fairs in Illinois.
Sam MadoniaHOST
State Fair, $770,000, I think, in Du Quoin, a little over $200,000, to put us over a million for two state fairs.
Greg HalbleibHOST
$714,000.
Greg HalbleibHOST
Was
Sam MadoniaHOST
Yes, this
Greg HalbleibHOST
was the third largest.
Greg HalbleibHOST
Yeah, we didn't deal too much with Du Quoin, but we did combine them because they surpassed a million for the second straight year.
Greg HalbleibHOST
That's notable, but we're concerned about our state fair numbers.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
About seven hundred fourteen thousand people attended the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
A record two hundred eighty-seven thousand went to the Du Quoin State Fair.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
Springfield also set a new single-day attendance record with almost a hundred four thousand visitors on August twenty-first.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
Sold-out concerts by Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson each drew more than fifteen thousand five hundred fans.
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RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
Illinois' two state fairs attracted more than a million visitors for the second straight year.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
About seven hundred fourteen thousand people attended the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
A record two hundred eighty-seven thousand went to the Du Quoin State Fair.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
Springfield also set a n-
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
About seven hundred and fourteen thousand people attended the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
A record two hundred and eighty-seven thousand went to the Du Quoin State Fair.
RJ CraceCORRESPONDENT
Springfield also set a new single-day attendance record
Colt W. KnightHOST
And it's funny you bring up SIU because that's where the left half of my family's from.
Colt W. KnightHOST
So my mother's side, uh, grew up in Southern Illinois, in Du Quoin actually, but I was actually born in the Carbondale-
Mark KingGUEST
Cool
Colt W. KnightHOST
... hospital just down the road from, uh, SIU.
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