After the death of a Fairview Heights teenager, multiple women said the caseworker on the case threatened them and their children.

“I think that we should celebrate this injunction, but we should continue to be vigilant,” said Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Chief Medical Officer Margaret Baum.

“The most basic thing that we've got to do is make sure that people get fed and people get health care,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said at a roundtable discussion in East St. Louis on Tuesday.

With the first study complete, backers will turn their attention to funding the project’s initial phase.

The Illinois Department of Transportation's latest effort on the decades-long project to connect the St. Louis region to southern Illinois, called the Southwest Connector, starts with collecting public feedback.

Starting in fall 2025, the district’s elementary schools, at minimum, will serve grades kindergarten through six, with two schools serving pre-K students as well.

The Illinois section of the St. Louis metropolitan area reported a 3.5% unemployment rate, a 1.3% drop from the same time last year.

The partnership also helped lead to charges being filed in a separate homicide case from 2011. Law enforcement and academics believe the program could be replicated elsewhere in the state.

Residents of 21 ZIP codes in St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County are now eligible to seek compensation for radiation exposure through a federal program. However, residents of Venice, Madison and Granite City did not make it in the expansion.

If this sounds familiar, that’s because IDOT shut down the north and east bound lanes for similar repairs last month.