Southern Hills

Southern Hills is a locality in Carbondale Township, Jackson, Illinois. Southern Hills is situated nearby to the hamlet Boskydell.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Banterra Center and Davies Gym.

Banterra Center

Stadium

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Banterra Center is an 8,284-seat multi-purpose arena, on the campus of Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. Construction on the arena began in the spring of 1962 and took nearly two years to complete.

Davies Gym

Sports venue

Davies Gym is the home of the Southern Illinois Salukis women's volleyball team and former home of all indoor sports at SIU. Upon completion of the SIU Arena in 1964, men's programs moved to the new facility.

Shryock Auditorium

University building

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Shryock Auditorium is an auditorium located on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. The auditorium was named for the university's fifth president, Henry William Shryock, who died inside the building just before a student convocation on April 13, 1935.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carbondale and Makanda.

Carbondale

Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.

Carbondale is a small city of about 25,000 in Southern about 14 miles east of the Mississippi River at roughly the southern edge of the plains, and the northern limit of the Shawnee hills.

Makanda

Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.

Makanda is a village in Jackson County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 547, down from 561 in 2010. In the early 20th Century it used the slogan "Star of Egypt." Makanda is part of the Carbondale, Illinois Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Southern Hills

Type: Locality
Location: Carbondale Township, Jackson, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.70394° or 37° 42′ 14″ north

Longitude

-89.21064° or 89° 12′ 38″ west

Elevation

440 feet (134 metres)

Open location code

869GPQ3Q+HP

GeoNames ID

4250393

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