Over 70 IL School Districts To Close For Eclipse: Report
Most of the affected districts are outside the Chicago area, but at least two suburban school systems will not be in session Monday. Over 70 school districts in Illinois will not be in session during a total solar eclipse that will pass through the state. The eclipse will be visible over 128 miles in southern Illinois, with totality expected to reach its maximum point at the Missouri line near Carbondale and continue into Indiana at 2:06 p.m. Crowds of up to 200,000 people are expected to visit the prime viewing area. Most of the school districts outside Chicago are outside the city, although two south suburban school systems, South Holland School District 151 and Country Club Hills School District 160 plan to have their day off. The path of totality stretches from Texas to Maine, but each of the 48 continental states will see some of the eclipse.
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ILLINOIS — More than 70 school districts in Illinois will not be in session Monday when a total solar eclipse makes its way through the state, according to NBC 5 Chicago.
The eclipse will be visible over roughly 128 miles in southern Illinois, with totality entering the state at the Missouri line at 1:58 p.m. near Carbondale and following a diagonal trajectory to exit the state and continue into Indiana at 2:06 p.m. over Mount Carmel. Crowds of up to 200,000 people are expected to travel to the prime viewing area in the southern part of the state. In the Chicago area, the moon will cover about 94 percent of the sun at the peak of the eclipse, which will reach maximum totality at 2:07 p.m.
Most of the school districts set to not be in attendance Monday are outside Chicago and its suburbs, although the south suburban school systems of South Holland School District 151 and Country Club Hills School District 160 do plan to have the day off, NBC 5 reported. Some 32 million Americans live in the path of the eclipse’s totality. In the United States, the path of totality extends from Texas to Maine, but each of the 48 continental states will see some of the solar eclipse, which occurs when the moon slips between our bright star and Earth.
The total solar eclipse starts in Mexico, entering the United States in Texas and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, as well as small parts of Tennessee and Michigan, before entering Canada in southern Ontario through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton before exiting continental North America on the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland.