I watched the 2017 Eclipse from Meremac State Park, MO. since I live just across the river from St. Louis.
A truly great event to witness/experience.
I was planning on traveling to southern Illinois to photograph the April 8th event but it looks like I may have to be watching my boy's dog on that day. Still working on a plan for that.
Here's a couple of pictures I took back in 2017 (hopefully they reproduce as the picture quality is horrible on this site).
In the bottom pic, you can see some solar flaring on the right side horizon.