Metro East

The Mississippi Valley Library District board of trustees currently has a 3-3 ideological split. Finding a replacement for a vacant board spot just a couple of months before the election could swing the board away from a conservative majority.

Chicago Bulls player E.J. Liddell gives a glimpse into his personal life and shares what it is like to be in the NBA.

Illinois promised answers after fatal officer-involved shootings and other deaths at the hands of law enforcement. But some prosecutors, including some in the Metro East, stay silent.

Freeburg has been the “Midgets” for 90 years. Many people with dwarfism now consider the term a slur.

In November, Madison County in the Metro East became the first nonrural county to pass a symbolic secession referendum.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported Jan. 7 the state is at a “high” level for respiratory illness activity. Between COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza and norovirus, some health care professionals say we are experiencing a “quademic."

U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski of Illinois has renewed her push to include parts of the Metro East in federal legislation that would compensate residents for being exposed to radiation from the World War II-era atomic weapons program.

Flag voting began Friday and will remain open until Feb. 14, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said.

The July 16 storm dropped 8 inches of rain. Although it's not clear how county officials will use the money, the federal dollars could be used to develop affordable housing, help small businesses, repair roads.

The settled lawsuits involved allegations that St. Clair County did not pay overtime compensation to employees and that sheriff’s deputies injured two people detained at the jail.