Tunnel Hill, Illinois
Encyclopedia
Tunnel Hill is an unincorporated community in northwestern Johnson County, Illinois
. It's best known in the 21st Century for its namesake railroad tunnel that gives the name to the Tunnel Hill State Trail
, a rails-to-trails project developed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. It's best known in the 21st Century for its namesake railroad tunnel that gives the name to the Tunnel Hill State Trail
Tunnel Hill State Trail
The Tunnel Hill State Trail is a bicycle trail running from Harrisburg to Karnak, Illinois. The trail runs along the former bed of a part of the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, a transportation unit led during its early years by Civil War General Ambrose Burnside...
, a rails-to-trails project developed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.