KC Vandalia Campus hosts fallen soldier exhibit

Jarrod Snow, a student at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville who is serving an internship with the office of Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, sets up the ‘Portait of a Soldier’ memorial exhibit at the Kaskaskia College Vandalia Campus on Monday. The exhibit, which includes portraits of 191 Illinois soldiers who have been killed in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001, by Cameron Shilling. Quinn, along with some of the parents whose children are included in the exhibit, visited the KC Vandalia Campus on Wednesday afternoon to unveil the portraits. The exhibit will be on display from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. on Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. next Monday through Wednesday.