Youth Programs

Advocates for after-school programs say an estimated 40,000 Illinois students could lose access to services starting this summer unless lawmakers act to fill a $50 million funding shortfall.

The center will enhance established regional sectors like aerospace, geospatial and biosciences, with its capacity to develop and prototype new ways of manufacturing, as well as provide a local workforce that understands those new techniques.

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.

The city extended its weekend evening hours at the Dunn-Marquette and Wohl community centers and launched a teen zone in Downtown, after a shooting in June left one teen dead and 11 injured.

Mike McLively of the Giffords Center for Violence Intervention said the city needs to improve overall safety by investing in programs that support mental health and housing security.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones says she wants to follow cities that reduced crime by making investments in youth.

St. Louis circus kids are doing handsprings this week over a reunion with friends from Puerto Rico.Last summer, nine kids from St. Louis’ Circus Harmony…