Breese, Illinois

“The sign is down,” Clinton County Board Chairman Brad Knolhoff said Tuesday afternoon. “My understanding from Lamar [Advertising] is that it’s down, and it’s not going back up. I hope they stand by that.”

A billboard promoting the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, has been put up near a high school in Clinton County in southwest Illinois, about 50 miles east of St. Louis.

The federal funding for farmers has been terminated under President Donald Trump’s administration. Family farmers in the Metro East now face abrupt uncertainty about how to fund plans they made for their growing businesses.

A federal workplace safety inspectors found Groundworks Contracting of Breese, Illinois, failed to protect workers who were installing storm sewer lines from the risk of trench cave-ins on a least five occasions.

Groundworks Contracting Inc. of Breese, Illinois ignored a city's engineers instruction to use trench cave-in protections, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.