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About Highland, IL

Highland lies about an hour east of St. Louis via I-70, Exit 30. This Madison County town of 10,000 sits among rolling farmland where corn and soybeans dominate the landscape. State Route 143 runs north-south through town, connecting to Greenville and smaller rural communities. Most long-distance visitors use I-70, while locals rely on surface streets for daily trips to nearby Triad or Marine. The nation's oldest continuously operating brewery, Gerst Brewing Company, has been making beer here since 1869.

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Highland, IL is in United States, at 38.760, -89.681 - about 13 km west of Pierron, IL.

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The closest airport to Highland, IL is Scott AFB/Midamerica Airport, 44 km (about 46 min by car). Other airports nearby: St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

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