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The East St. Louis race riot in 1917 is one of the most violent race massacres in the country and the most violent riot in the area. This riot was a predecessor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, and Viola Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the riot, said Tuesday at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville that reparations are due to survivors and their descendants.
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This is not the first time the East St. Louis Police and Fire Pension Boards plan to ask the Illinois comptroller to intervene. In 2019, the comptroller did just that — the intercept caused interruptions in city services.
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The program was founded by Brianna Morales — the young East St. Louis teacher named the 2023 Illinois Teacher of the Year last spring.
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The Illinois Department of Transportation has been talking about constructing a connector between Illinois 3 in Fairmont City and Illinois 203 and Madison, Illinois, for the last 20 years. Recently, the state agency unveiled its preferred route.
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The longtime civil rights and voting rights activist died Thanksgiving Day in O'Fallon, Illinois. Scott spent 32 years as the head of the East St. Louis NAACP branch.
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Reginald Hudlin, the East St. Louis native who came to fame with his 1990 film “House Party,” played with genre expectations for his first holiday film, “Candy Cane Lane.” It’s Hudlin’s first time working with Eddie Murphy since directing “Boomerang” in 1992.
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As Cahokia Heights residents found themselves continuously sick with respiratory conditions, heart problems, and bacterial infections they had one question — where were the health officials?
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The latest Illinois Report Card provides information about schools across southwestern Illinois. Here’s how metro-east high schools fared in the 2022-23 report.
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Under Illinois law, all police agencies will be required to begin wearing body cameras by the start of 2025. East St. Louis got its first body cameras in September.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting an Environmental Justice Academy to train people in the Metro East on ways to identify and address environmental challenges in their communities.