Metro East

“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.

"Skwäd Goals, Vol. 1" is the first of many collaborative albums from the East St. Louis rapper and music producer.

Construction on the project will be completed in 30 to 60 days. The solar panels will power the Scott Dome Yard maintenance facility in East St. Louis.

After the death of a Fairview Heights teenager, multiple women said the caseworker on the case threatened them and their children.

“I think that we should celebrate this injunction, but we should continue to be vigilant,” said Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Chief Medical Officer Margaret Baum.

“The most basic thing that we've got to do is make sure that people get fed and people get health care,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said at a roundtable discussion in East St. Louis on Tuesday.

With the first study complete, backers will turn their attention to funding the project’s initial phase.

The Illinois Department of Transportation's latest effort on the decades-long project to connect the St. Louis region to southern Illinois, called the Southwest Connector, starts with collecting public feedback.

Starting in fall 2025, the district’s elementary schools, at minimum, will serve grades kindergarten through six, with two schools serving pre-K students as well.