Trustee Joe Micheletto has resigned from the Village Board for health reasons. On Tuesday, Mayor Rob Jackstadt read a letter from Micheletto to the board, declaring that he resigned "with deep regrets." Micheletto was appointed to the board in 2006 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Joe Parente, who had been named administrative director ...

Debbie Dycus, founder of the National Shaken Baby Coalition, has spent her life giving to others, taking very little time to take care of herself.

Peggy Marlin was eagle-watching up Alton way when an idea hatched that turned her into a children's book author.

Part of one of the earliest shopping malls in the area is coming down as part of a remodeling job and expansion of the Glen Carbon Wal-Mart store.

Lowe's now knows Granite City. The chain's newest home improvement store has just opened at 1333 Schaeffer Road.

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.