OAK BROOK – The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association recently announced the start of the initial round of voting for Makers Madness, a bracket-style tournament in which voters across the state will decide which product is “The Coolest Thing Made in Illinois.”
The full list of 311 products nominated can be found here and officials have released a list of products nominated from southern Illinois:
City/Town | Product | Manufacturer |
Ridgway | Dinger Baseball bats | Dinger |
Benton | DTH Drill Bits | Mincon Rockdrills USA |
Carbondale | 40 Below Joe | Beaded Distribution |
Carbondale | COVID-19 Specimen Shippers | COM-PAC |
Carbondale | INTEGRA Pre-Zippered Roll Stock | COM-PAC |
Carbondale | Promask Painter’s Tape | Intertape Polymer Group |
Carterville | AM Transformers | Amerag |
Du Quoin | Insulated Power Cable | Prysmian Group |
Ina | Uncle Joe’s BBQ Sauce | Uncle Joe’s |
Marion | Sunroof | Aisin |
Mount Vernon | Tires | Continental Tire |
Mount Vernon | Modular Elevators | Phoenix Modular Elevator |
Pittsburgh | Steel | US Steel |
Wolf Lake | Dynamite | Dyno Nobel |
Voting is ongoing and a winner will be announced March 24.