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About Du Bois, IL

Du Bois is a tiny farming community of about 120 people in southern Illinois, roughly an hour southeast of St. Louis via I-64 and Route 127. The village sits in Washington County's agricultural heartland, surrounded by corn and soybean fields. Most visitors arrive from St. Louis or use Route 127 as a rural connector between Nashville and the Shawnee National Forest area. The town is named after French trader Pierre Du Bois, who established a trading post here in the early 1800s.

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Du Bois, IL is in United States, at 38.221, -89.213 - about 28 km north of Du Quoin, IL.

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The closest airport to Du Bois, IL is Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois, 73 km (about 1 h 11 min by car).

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