In the 2022-23 school year, 13.3% of the students in Century Community Unit School District 100 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2022-23 school year, 13.4% of the students in Pope County Community Unit School District 1 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
There were two offenders living in Pope County released on parole during the third quarter of 2024, according to Illinois Department of Corrections data obtained by Southern Illinois News.
The only price of regular gas in cities throughout Pope County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Dec. 14, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
Alexander County has no new sex offenders registered as living there in the week ending Dec. 22, according to the Illinois Police Sex Offender Registry.