Kavahn Mansouri | Belleville News-Democrat

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he is closely watching the southwestern Illinois counties that border Missouri, which have the highest growth of new COVID-19 infections in the country.

Residents say no changes have been made in the year since a previous lawsuit was filed.

An internal investigation reviewed by the Illinois State Police and the local NAACP found the officer used restraint. Families of the teen girls disagree.

The $96 million project will add more than five miles of new track and bike trails to the existing light rail line to connect it to the county-owned airport.

The findings were backed by the independent review of the Illinois State Police and O’Fallon-Metro East Chapter of the NAACP.

Chief Chris Locke issued the statement on Facebook a week after the incident and complained that news coverage was inaccurate but has refused to say how.

The police department says it’s investigating the officer’s use of force but declined to identify the officer.

The St. Clair County board voted unanimously Monday night to approve a new policy hoped to minimize security risks from future attacks. The new policy adds multi-factor authentication on county accounts and raises requirements on county network passwords.

“I’ve heard that 20-something years, so seeing is believing,” one resident said.

The county government hopes to bolster its network security to prevent what happened to neighboring St. Clair County.

St. Clair County’s website is back online following an alleged ransomware attack that may have given a hacker group several gigabytes of sensitive data.

Several services provided by St. Clair County via the web were unavailable Wednesday after the county disabled its website out of “an abundance of caution” following a ransomware attack on the county.