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Edwardsville, Illinois: Big T-Bone Steak

The upright eight-foot-high slab o' meat was created by SIU graduate Haley Clancy Inyart. It's officially named "Seven Cows" and was meant to be critical of the meat industry, but meat-lovers like it, too.

Address:
University Drive, Edwardsville, IL
Directions:
On the campus of Southern Illinois University. From IL-157 turn west at the stoplight onto E. University Drive. At the next stoplight turn left onto N. University Drive. Drive south a half-mile. You'll see the steak in the road median, on the left.
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Big T-Bone Steak.

Big T-Bone Steak

At one end of the roundabout on University Drive on the campus of Southern Illinois University is a giant T-Bone steak.

[Crystal Hollis, 03/02/2023]

The eight-foot-high T-Bone, created in 2019 by SIU graduate Haley Clancy Inyart, is officially named "Seven Cows." It's meant to be critical of the meat industry, but meat-lovers like it, too.


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