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Despite the fire pension board reaching a deal with East St. Louis, the pension board representing police will move forward with a plan to have Illinois's comptroller intercept funds from the city.
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The Government Relations Committee voted on Tuesday to approve a nonbinding referendum for the full board to consider. If approved, the referendum would ask residents in a symbolic vote if they would like to no longer be in the same state as the Chicago area.
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A handful of Metro East schools near to, or within, the eclipse’s path of totality — the area where people can see the moon completely cover the sun — will be closed.
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Replacing the sewer line is an essential step in fixing Cahokia Heights' faulty system that's left residents with backed-up toilets, flooded basements and standing water in their yards.
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An Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigator receives a starting salary as high as $72,000, compared to just $43,000 for an equivalent position in Missouri.
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The Lovejoy apartment complex, soon to be built in downtown Alton, is to be complete by the end of 2026 and house 120 family units. In all, the project will cost more than $50 million. The company building the complex received more than $1 million in federal funding for construction on Tuesday.
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The new Metro East facility will serve lower-income families near O’Fallon, Shiloh, Lebanon and east Belleville. Center directors said they observed a need for such a facility as St. Clair County residents moved east.
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The Illinois State Board of Education found Grant Community Consolidated School District 110 as being in "financial difficulty" last week. The teachers' union says the superintendent should resign.
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The courthouse will remain open to the public, but the southwest entrance and the pedestrian crosswalk tunnel between the South First Street public parking garage and courthouse will be temporarily closed.
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Thomas Clatterbuck, a law student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Joshua Loyd, an entrepreneur and Army veteran, will face off in the March 19 primary for the GOP nomination.