Following an emergency meeting of the Stookey Township board Thursday morning, Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert said he'll recommend that the City Council on Monday postpone its vote on whether to annex 22 acres for a $10 million expansion project by Allsup Inc. on Illinois 15.
A Belleville soldier retired Thursday after 38 years serving in the Army with one of the highest honors given.
Belleville Police are investigating the robbery and assault of a woman Monday night.
BELLEVILLE -- The Defense Logistics Agency awarded a contract of about $2.6 million to Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Co. on Wednesday.
Police are searching for a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred early Tuesday morning at the Conoco Gas Station at 7406 W. Main St.
For the fifth time since 1991, Southwestern Illinois College has earned the ultimate prize in the Great Rivers Athletic Conference.
Students will once again file into St. Mary's School in August when the county's safe school program relocates to the former Catholic school campus.
The owner of troubled cemeteries in Belleville and Edwardsville said Monday he sometimes asks himself why he ever bought them.
John Lengerman is happy to be back home, again. He left his hometown of Belleville to become vice president and then senior vice president of Gleaner Life Insurance Co. in Michigan.
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Mount Hope Cemetery in Belleville and Valley View Cemetery in Edwardsville, which were full of overgrown grass and weeds a month ago, are in better condition now but still far from perfect, say many who have loved ones buried there.
The grandson of a 66-year-old woman found slain in her home late Thursday was charged Friday with first-degree murder.
Police officers, public works employees and Ameren crews were working to restore order after a fast and furious thunderstorm ripped through the metro-east Friday afternoon.
