FAIRMOUNT CITY – At first glance, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site appears to be a well-groomed city park. However, the visitors walking the gravel paths move slowly through the well-manicured ...

Assistant site manager Bill Iseminger stood at the base of 100-foot-high Monks Mound, bracing himself against an icy winter wind whipping across Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville ...

CAHOKIA, Ill. (KFVS) - A bill introduced on Monday, April 19 would establish Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site as a national park. The Cahokia Mounds and Mississippian Culture National Historic ...

State Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, have introduced legislation to establish national park status for Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.

The first few years after the Interpretive Center opened at Cahokia Mounds in 1989, attendance hovered around 500,000 before it tapered to 400,000, said Bill Iseminger, the assistant site manager.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site WASHINGTON, D.C. — Much-anticipated legislation to establish Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville as part of the national park system got a boost ...

Becoming a national park would boost the site's protectoin, status and tourism, advocates say. Cahokia Mounds would become national park under Bost bill Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

The Cahokia Mounds are named after the Cahokia subtribe that moved into the area in the 1600s and is currently a state historic site. Senators have proposed National Park status for Cahokia Mounds.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin is reintroducing a bill to make the state historic site Cahokia Mounds a National Park.. U.S. Congressman Mike Bost has also introduced a bill to ...

An effort to establish national park status for Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site and related areas has started again with the reintroduction of companion bills in the U.S. House and ...

The park would be managed between the park service and local […] WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Mike Bost introduced a bill that would give Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site national ...