For some Springfield resident, total solar eclipse is 'twice-in-a-lifetime experience'

Caitlin Darling of Springfield said she cried viewing the total solar eclipse in southern Illinois in 2017.

"It really was the coolest thing," Darling recalled. "I could use a good cry again. I'm sure I'm going to love it one way or another."

Darling, along with her husband, Mike, and daughters, Olivia, 17, and Vivien, 12, are again making the trek to southern Illinois, this time to Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area bordering Rend Lake, for Monday's eclipse.