Barge traffic resumed on the Illinois Waterway as temperatures rose and the country’s midsection recovered from the polar vortex. Jeff Lebeau, assistant lockmaster at Starved Rock Lock and Dam, said… Read More
polar vortex
The icy arctic temperatures that swept downward into the country’s midsection beginning February 8 were followed February 15 by more blasts of cold, this time accompanied by winter storms. A… Read More
