Fairmont City

The Illinois Department of Transportation has been talking about constructing a connector between Illinois 3 in Fairmont City and Illinois 203 and Madison, Illinois, for the last 20 years. Recently, the state agency unveiled its preferred route.

For the median homeowner in Collinsville, whose home is worth $182,000, there will be an estimated increase of $9.38 in property taxes next spring. In Fairmont City, where the median home is worth $100,000, there will be an increase of $4.95, according to district documents.

As Cahokia Heights residents found themselves continuously sick with respiratory conditions, heart problems, and bacterial infections they had one question — where were the health officials?

The small soccer field in the majority Hispanic Metro East community is just the first of 11 that City SC will open in the region. The new field will serve Fairmont City’s youth program and others in the area.

Leaders in the southwestern Illinois village wonder if it will be just as hard for other small towns to get fiber internet.

For 75 years, Hispanics from each side of the Mississippi square off in a friendly soccer match that also has chorizo bragging rights on the line.

Mientras algunos grupos en St. Louis están disminuyendo en población según el último censo, la comunidad latina está creciendo exponencialmente. “El Arch ahora se ha convertido en un símbolo de hogar para mí,” dijo una residente latina que se mudó a St. Louis en la última década.

“Caracas is a place I was born and raised, and it is my first home. St. Louis is my second one. The Arch now has become a symbol for home to me,” said one Latina resident who moved to St. Louis in the past decade.

Service finally may begin in Fairmont City in the spring.

It's a common sight at the Fairmont City Library Center: Students discussing the grammar and syntax of English sentences in small groups.On a recent…