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Snow day in southern Illinois: Students, community brave winter weather

By Daily Egpytian Staff
January 25, 2026

The campus of Southern Illinois University received over a foot a snow this weekend as students and Carbondale community members experienced below zero wind chills, dangerous road conditions and citywide closures.

Salukis and southern Illinoisans were out in full force, drifting cars down The Strip, sledding at the Banterra Center, shoveling sidewalks and trying to stay warm.

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Max Anderson, 7, lands in the snow after catching air while he sleds down the Banterra Center hill on his stomach in close to a foot of snow Jan. 25, 2026 in Carbondale, Illinois.

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