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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Trent Jonas is a graduate student studying English and can be reached at 217-581-2812.

COLUMN: Illinois should have a national park, and it should be Shawnee National Forest

Trent Jonas, Columnist February 13, 2023

Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in 1872. There are now 63 national parks in the system, and none of them are in Illinois. But the U.S. Forest Service’s 297,000-acre Shawnee National...

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