DUQUOIN, IL (KFVS)  -  Get ready to start your engines! The Car Craft Street Machine Nationals returns to the Motorhead Mecca in the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds on June 28 - 30, for the first time since 1998. 

The Street Machine Nationals had been held at the DuQuoin Fairgrounds for 13 years in a row, until its run ended 15 years ago. This national celebration of horsepower and dream machines will showcase high-performance street machines, hot rods, and street trucks from across the nation. 

There won't be any shortage of things to keep you busy, with the Performance Marketplace for the latest aftermarket parts, the burnout challenge, dyno challenge, as well as more than 40 pro-judged awards to be given out. There will also be a Miss Street Machine contest being held as well.

PERRY COUNTY, IL (KFVS) - IL Route 154 was closed for over an hour on Monday, May 27 around 4:25 a.m. after a crash at Albers Road.

According to the Illinois State Police, Cheyenne N. Conner, 19, from Mulkeytown was driving a blue 2003 Kia Spectra eastbound on IL Rt. 154 and Jeffery T. Mullins, 47, from Mt. Vernon was driving a red 2006 Freightliner pulling a bulk hauling trailer westbound near Albers Road.

ISP said Conner told them she was adjusting her car radio and they say she crossed the center line, hitting the Freightliner in a partial overlap head on crash.

Conner’s car came to a rest on the north shoulder of the road and the Freightliner came to a rest on the south shoulder of the road.

IL Rt. 154 was closed for about an hour and a half for clean up.

Conner was cited for driving an uninsured vehicle and driving in the wrong lane. According to ISP, she had minor injuries. They say Mullins was uninjured.

CARBONDALE, IL (KFVS) - The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will host a public hearing next week to discuss legislative redistricting in Illinois.

The hearing is May 30, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Carbondale Civic Center, 200 S. Illinois Ave.

Ryan Blitstein, president of “CHANGE Illinois!,” will outline a proposed constitutional amendment and hear ideas and suggestions from the public about the group’s proposal to create a citizens commission to do redistricting. Under current law, state lawmakers draw their own district lines.

Recently, the group launched a drive to finalize the text of an amendment before starting a petition drive asking voters to put it on the November 2014 ballot. Blitstein is touring the state explaining the plan and collecting reactions and suggestions.