LaToya Greenwood

Rendering of the future $13,584,000 public safety center at the Emerson Park Transit Center. The goal of the center is to improve communications and security collaboration among public safety partners.

Economy & Business

MetroLink riders will see a new public safety center in East St. Louis next February

Will Bauer

The goal of the facility is to help make MetroLink safer for the region.

Republican Kevin Schmidt, left, defeated incumbent Democratic Rep. LaToya Greenwood in the House District 114 race.

Can a Millstadt Republican represent all of IL House District 114? Black leaders worry.

Mike Koziatek

Black Democrats from East St. Louis have held the 114th seat in the Illinois House for the last 47 years.

An environmental activists holds a kites with a messages supporting a ban on PFAS incineration in front of industrial complexes in Sauget on April 22, 2021. After a similar bill was vetoed last year, environmental groups plan to introduce legislation that would ban the burning of the toxic class of chemicals.

Health, Science & Environment

Illinois environmentalists again push for the state to ban burning of toxic PFAS

Eric Schmid

A nearly identical bill unanimously passed the Illinois House and Senate last year, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker vetoed it. Now environmental groups are starting the whole process over.

Members of Join Hands ESL hold kites with messages supporting a ban on PFAS incineration in front of industrial complexes in Sauget on April 22. A bill in the Illinois House would ban the burning of the toxic class of chemicals.

Health, Science & Environment

Metro East Environmentalists Call For Illinois Lawmakers To Ban Burning Toxic Class Of Chemicals

Eric Schmid

The bill by Rep. LaToya Greenwood, D-East St. Louis, advanced on Wednesday, and would prohibit disposing of any PFAS through burning.

**WE HAVE PERMISSION TO ONLY PUBLISH THIS IMAGE ONCE** Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside, (right) speaks to Rep. LaShawn Ford, D-Chicago, Monday on the floor of the Bank of Springfield Center, the acting Illinois House chamber to ensure COVID-19 precautions. The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus is putting forward a massive bill to reform policing in the state. **WE HAVE PERMISSION TO ONLY PUBLISH THIS IMAGE ONCE**

Government, Politics & Issues

Illinois Police Oppose ‘Rushed’ Reform Bill, But Black Leaders Say It’s Time To Take Action

DeAsia Paige

“Hopefully we are doing our ancestors proud in the work that we are doing here,” state Rep. LaToya Greenwood said.

State Rep. Eddie Lee Jackson Sr. in the Illinois House Representatives in this Aug. 17, 2012 file photo. Jackson served for 8 years in the Illinois Legislature.

Government, Politics & Issues

East St. Louis Community Mourns Death Of Longtime Educator, Politician Eddie Lee Jackson

The longtime educator, community leader and politician died Friday morning after fighting the novel coronavirus.