Kelsey Landis
Kelsey Landis is an Illinois state affairs and politics reporter for the Belleville News-Democrat, a news partner of St. Louis Public Radio.
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The Illinois Department of Public Health runs a legitimate COVID-19 testing site at St. Clair Square, but another site popped up without permission. -
Officers from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have been at the Amazon warehouse northeast of the Interstate 255/270 interchange since Saturday. -
Search and recovery efforts continued Saturday and were expected to take three additional days, said Edwardsville Fire Chief James Whiteford. -
Almost all Illinois residents have access to basic internet speeds, but it’s expensive and too slow. Will federal money help? -
Municipalities can levy up to 3% on recreational cannabis sales on top of existing sales taxes. Cities around the Metro East are using that new revenue in different ways. -
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says the infrastructure deal will cover the cost of repairing decades-old problems." -
The community of 32,000, one of the only growing cities in the Metro East, is split between two congressional districts. Some say this drastically hurts its representation. -
Abortion rights leaders say they’re prepared for Illinois to assume an even larger role as a national point of access. -
Negotiators backed down from a plan that would have forced coal plants to close by 2035. -
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the leisure and hospitality industry, business owners told lawmakers, and they’re going to need all the help they can get to recover, if they survived at all. -
It could soon be illegal for Illinois companies to incinerate a class of potentially cancer-causing substances known as “forever chemicals” because they accumulate in the body and environment without breaking down. -
The GOP says Democrats proposed a legislative district map that consolidates their power.
