Lexi Cortes
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St. Clair County Sheriff Rick Watson said a $300,000 plan put forth by the county board was a good gesture, but he’s skeptical of the plan. -
Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation soon plans to turn Cahokia Heights properties where derelict homes were once boarded up into a new low-income housing development called Vivian’s Village. -
The U.S. Department of Labor is now suing the owner, Khalid Ramadan, for approximately $367,890 in compensation and damages for 179 IHOP workers. -
To date, only 4% of the money sought for projects to help the city of Cahokia Heights address its flooding and sewage crisis has been spent, according to an EPA analysis. -
The nonprofit purchased properties to renovate or demolish existing houses and to construct new ones like those in the housing development, a 20-home subdivision called Lansdowne Park. -
The raises begin in January 2025 when the St. Clair County chairman, treasurer, assessor, county clerk, auditor, circuit clerk, coroner and county recorder will all be paid $106,540 each. -
Officials and lawyers representing the city said Cahokia Heights had still not received most of the funding.
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The families of shooting victims criticized MetroLink security in 2019 and again in 2023 because no police were patrolling the Metro East stations at the time the crimes occurred. -
The Army Corps shelved 14 flood control measures authorized in 1965 for the area because of “low cost-benefit ratios.” The federal lawmakers noted that decades later the communities experience frequent flooding. -
The county signed a $2.49 million contract with Acoustic Technology, Inc. Systems in late 2022 to replace 79 existing sirens across the county and install 43 new ones. -
It’s been over three months since Illinois lawmakers requested a federal public health assessment because of residents’ repeated exposure to sewage from broken municipal infrastructure. -
Cahokia Heights has still not received most of the millions of dollars that state and federal leaders said two years ago would be available to fix broken infrastructure.
