Glen Carbon News

A new bill that is being drafted in Springfield and will be presented to Illinois lawmakers in January revises and restricts those developments that would be eligible for sales tax revenue bonds.

All that persistent rain flooded basements and backed up drainage ditches, but the flooding doesn't stop there.

Lawmakers negotiating over a bill that would create a new funding option in Illinois and pave the way for a $1 billion development in the metro-east have come up with a new bill two months after Gov.

With a potential $200 million amusement park waiting in the wings, supporters of a major Metro East development now are banking on a compromise to get a key tax incentive plan through the Illinois Legislature.

Cassens Elementary didn't just hit the ground running -- it vaulted nearly to the top.

The village's deliberation over the fate of a 100-year-old farmhouse is drawing concern from a former resident of the structure.

Illinois schools' test scores are in, and while one St. Clair County school has boosted itself to first place among the county's highest scoring schools, one district known to produce some of the lowest scores had two schools rank among the top five.

Rumor has it that Legoland could be coming to the St. Louis area. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch learned that the European toy company is talking with Illinois officials about "tax incentives to build a $200 million Legoland amusement park in the Glen Carbon area." That would put a new amusement park within 20 miles of Downtown St.

A woman who spent her childhood as a Girl Guide in India and later helped develop the Health Care for the Homeless Coalition in St.

In Bill Nunes' 14th book related to Illinois history, he takes a bite out of crime.

A European company is quietly talking with Illinois officials about tax incentives to build a $200 million Legoland amusement park in the Glen Carbon area, the Post-Dispatch has learned.

After a one-year hiatus, the Route 66 Festival in Edwardsville, Ill., will return in 2010, reports the Edwardsville Intelligencer .

We do not tax God in this country -- at least not yet. And we don't collect property taxes from places where we gather to worship, or places with religious missions.

Barbara Boyle, the Glen Carbon woman who brought F. Lee Bailey to town to defend her in the high-profile Gusewelle killings 30 years ago, is now a free woman.

Barbara Jean Boyle was convicted Sunday by a Madison County jury of one count of murder in the 1979 murder-for-profit slaying of her husband Ronald Gusewelle.

A woman who described herself as a former meth addict testified Wednesday that she saw a Glen Carbon man participating in making the drug at his home.

Police messaging and residency assistance will be the topic of tonight's village board meeting.

Organizers are well on their way to raising enough money to start a new Catholic high school in Madison County, but one of the most important parts of the effort has more to do with faith than with money.

Co-teachers Michael Moginot and Jennifer Herring applaud their students in the audience as North Elementary School students Jacob Gordon, 9, and Anna Gentelin present a $200 check Friday to humanitarian Greg Mortenson at Hatheway Hall on the campus of Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey.

Madison County Treasurer Fred Bathon will not seek re-election next year, he told Democratic Party leaders at a meeting in Alton Wednesday.