Metro East

“The arguments were basically that the lawsuit we filed was too long and too confusing for them to respond to,” an attorney for the plaintiffs said. The case is now continuing.

St. Clair County Circuit Judge Ronald Duebbert, who'd been temporarily suspended since July 2020, will suspended for at least another year for making false statements to police.

A nonprofit is developing a new subdivision in East St. Louis with 20, $300,000 homes. The project is expected to be completed by spring 2024.

Many small or mid-size businesses could end up closing in the near future because their aging owners don’t have a clear transition plan.

Included in the listing are the main hall building, the open-air storage shed, the former Quality Rental building, the dirt racetrack, and multiple outbuildings.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, the number of abortions performed in Illinois has gone up 28%, even as numbers decreased nationwide.

In the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, providers in southern Illinois are working overtime to absorb dozens of abortion patients each day who come from states that banned the procedure.

A federal judge has upheld Granite City’s "crime-free" housing ordinance. Housing advocates say the fight isn't over.

Skate City is known to have the “smoothest concrete in the United States,” and is East St Louis’ lone skating rink.

July’s floods affected about 700 homes to some extent region wide — and residents filed more than 14,000 requests in the first four weeks after the flood.