Touchette Regional Hospital

“To have these prices go up and not provide assistance is unacceptable,” Durbin said at a press conference in Cahokia Heights on Friday. “We've got to do something about it.”

Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation soon plans to turn Cahokia Heights properties where derelict homes were once boarded up into a new low-income housing development called Vivian’s Village.

As officials at Touchette Regional Hospital cut a bright red ribbon on Tuesday for the opening of a new behavioral health center, another Metro East…