East St. Louis

Mourners are wrapping caskets in imagery, similar to the way companies wrap logos around cars, trucks, and buses. Across the country, casket-wrap companies create custom designs, too often for parents grieving their dead children.

“I look at it as me paying it forward because I’ve been doing music since I was 12, and I wish somebody would’ve given me game beforehand,” Anthony Lucius said.

“The new green economy can be as exclusive and as unjust as the old one,” said the Rev. Rodrick Burton. He and others want local residents to decide how the region responds to climate change.

Brittany Green was one of more than 100 teachers in Illinois nominated for the award. The honor comes with $10,000 for the school and for Green to use toward professional development.

Residents of the former city of Centreville (now Cahokia Heights) have for years dealt with flooding and sewage overflows. Residents feel ignored — and financially trapped — after decades of inaction by officials.

Brittany Green is one of six finalists for the 2022 Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Leadership for her work transforming Gordon Bush Elementary from a failing school to a “commendable” one.

Landsowne Up aims to create faith-based economic revival in the city, starting with a new housing project in the city’s northeast end.

The police union in the city voted on a no-confidence measure last week.

“Those guys, they were just proud Black men— capable, talented, smart and they were role models for all of us,” an East St. Louis native said.

The funding includes a new public safety center in St. Clair County along the MetroLink route and improvements to America’s Central Port in Granite City.