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CHICAGO — Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of states, filed a bipartisan lawsuit against Toast Inc. alleging the restaurant software and fintech company saddles restaurants with hidden fees and unauthorized charges, fails to deliver on its customer support promises, and makes it difficult to cancel its services. Toast markets and sells point-of-sale hardware and software and payment processing services to small businesses in the restaurant

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rallies in Kansas and Iowa this weekend are back on after initial cancellations, States Newsroom confirmed Friday. The Midwest rallies mark the final sprint to Election Day on Nov. 3 — now just four days away — where the GOP is itching to maintain its narrow majority in the U.S. […]

EDWARDSVILLE - The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) released the 2026 Illinois Report Card today, providing families and community members with information about student achievement and school performance during the 2025-26 school year. The report includes data on academic proficiency, student growth, graduation rate, attendance and other indicators of student success. Twelve schools in Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 earned an Exemplary designation, the highest performance

SPRINGFIELD — This week, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) led 33 of her colleagues in a letter calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate reports of widespread overcharging by some of America’s most-recognized brand-name retailers. The letter is just the latest in the Congresswoman’s continued efforts to hold Dollar General and Family Dollar accountable for widespread price discrepancies at locations nationwide. In December 2025, Budzinski led 29 colleagues

ALTON — The Illinois Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to discuss the preliminary engineering study of proposed improvements to the Illinois 100 Sam Vadalabene Bike Trail. The meeting will be held: Monday, Nov. 9, 2026 4-7 p.m. Hayner Public Library 132 Alton Square, Alton IDOT, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, has initiated a preliminary engineering and environmental study of the Illinois 100 Sam Vadalabene Bike Trail. The Phase

COLLINSVILLE – A complaint was recently filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections over claims a Madison County judicial candidate has not met certain campaign finance disclosure requirements. A verified complaint for a violation of the Campaign Disclosure Act was filed on Oct. 29, 2026, by Attorney Michael Wesley on behalf of Madison County Board Member Paul Nicolussi. It alleges Madison County Circuit Judge candidate Marc Parker has not created a campaign committee or filed certain

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A cardboard box becomes a robot, a front porch becomes a haunted house, and an ordinary shopping list suddenly includes fake spiders. Halloween has not arrived, yet it is already changing how people see familiar things. That is the power of anticipation: a single celebration can create weeks of imagination, planning, and shared excitement. Halloween offers more than one night of costumes and candy. For many people, its appeal begins with choosing a character, spotting the first decorations,

On Oct. 30, 1896, the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony, bringing a groundbreaking work by an American woman to a major orchestral stage. Conducted by Emil Paur at Boston Music Hall, the performance helped challenge assumptions about who could write large-scale concert music. The work became the first published symphony by an American woman — a lasting milestone in a profession that placed substantial barriers before female composers. Looking

Crossroads Grand Opening April 2026

Pictured left to right: SLDC President and CEO Stephen Westbrooks; EverTrue President and CEO Adam Marles; Sean Spencer, Executive Director, Tower Grove CDC; Mayor Cara Spencer; and Jason Kempf, Board President, Tower Grove CDC.

Tower Grove Community Development Corporation is proud to share that EverTrue Crossroads at Bevo Mill has been honored as “Development of the Year” at the 2026 Mayor’s Celebration of Businesses, presented by the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC). The award recognizes projects that strengthen St. Louis neighborhoods and contribute to the region’s economy.

For everyone who has been part of this project, the recognition means a great deal. EverTrue Crossroads did not happen quickly or easily. It took nearly 7 years of planning, financing, and neighborhood conversations to turn a corner of Gravois Avenue into a home for 64 households.

A Place to Grow Older Without Leaving Home

EverTrue Crossroads was co-developed by EverTrue and Tower Grove CDC with a simple purpose: to give older adults who have spent their lives in Bevo Mill a high-quality, affordable way to stay in the neighborhood they love.

That idea has guided us from the start. Too often, longtime residents watch their neighborhoods improve just as rising costs or aging homes push them out. At EverTrue Crossroads, people have the opportunity to stay in their neighborhood as they get older, close to their churches, their friends, their favorite restaurants, and the streets they know.

Located at 4900 Gravois Avenue, the building includes 64 apartments, 57 of them set aside for low- and very low-income seniors, along with community rooms and on-site management. The project is also the first in the area built to the design and development goals of the Bevo Great Streets Plan, a sign that the neighborhood’s long-term vision for Gravois is becoming real.

One Neighbor’s Story

A new tenant from the Bevo Mill neighborhood moved into Crossroads on September 30. A few months earlier, he was in a very different place.

After losing his wife, he also lost her income. He was facing funeral costs, roughly $45,000 in repairs on the family home (a failing sewer line, roof, and furnace, and a garage that was falling down), and a growing stack of bills. The city had begun citing the property, and fees were piling up. His monthly bills ran about $3,100, while Social Security and a part-time job brought in about $1,800. The worry was making him sick.

His banker, who had been helping him sort through his finances, brought him to see the new apartments at EverTrue Crossroads. After talking it over with his son and daughter, who both travel for work and couldn’t be nearby to help, he applied and was approved.

Today, his rent, including utilities and cable, is $570 a month. Selling his house as-is let him pay off every outstanding bill, his car, and a credit card that was close to charging off, and still put money into savings. His debt-to-income ratio dropped from 174% to 31%.

More important than the numbers is how life feels now. He can buy groceries, add to the till at his church, and fill his gas tank without worry. He recently stopped by his bank with a thank-you card and a balloon and mentioned that he’d gone swing dancing the weekend before, and that he can now do laundry in his own in-unit washer and dryer.

As his banker put it: “This is what makes me happy about my job.”

Capital, Patience, Persistence and Partnerships

If we had to sum up what it took to build EverTrue Crossroads, it would be four words: capital, patience, persistence and partnerships.

The financing alone required layering federal and state Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, HUD Section 202 support, Community Development Block Grant funding and Affordable Housing Trust Fund funding, a Missouri Housing Development Commission loan, and construction financing, each with its own requirements and timelines. Holding those pieces together through rising construction costs and shifting markets took years of steady work.

No single organization could have done it alone. We are deeply grateful to our co-developer EverTrue, whose experience in senior housing and HUD 202 made this possible; to Jerry Burka for his deal-making; to EM Harris Construction; to the National Equity Fund; to Midwest BankCentre; and to the City of St. Louis and SLDC. We also thank architect Rosemann & Associates, Better Bevo Now, the Newport Heights Neighborhood Association, the Bevo Community Improvement District. Neighbors showed up to meetings, asked hard questions, and made this a better project.

What This Award Says About St. Louis

Accepting the award, EverTrue President and CEO Adam Marles described the project as an example of what a community can achieve when it rallies around a shared vision, and credited nearly a decade of collaboration among mission-driven organizations, neighbors, and public-private partners.

We agree, and we think the lesson reaches beyond one building. EverTrue Crossroads is a testament that the City and nonprofit stakeholders, with resources and partnerships, can accomplish complicated development projects together. That is where CDCs thrive in our city: taking on the projects that are too complex, too slow, or too mission-driven for the market to deliver on its own, and seeing them through.

Since welcoming residents at our grand opening on April 30, 2026, EverTrue Crossroads has become what we hoped it would be: a home. This award belongs to the residents who live there, the neighbors who believed in it, and every partner who kept going when it would have been easier to stop.

Thank you, St. Louis. We’re just getting started.

2026 Mayor’s Celebration of Businesses- Tower Grove CDC and Evertrue Group Shot

Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston grants a partial victory to the 25 Democratic-led […]

Marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum features more than 50 works created between 1770 and 2018. […]

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The beloved pachyderm is in his new home, where it is hoped he can continue breeding and adding to the Asian elephant population.Samudra, an 18-year-old male elephant, is expected to come to the St. Louis Zoo next year, in the…

Shortly after 2:00AM on October 30, 2026, District 6 officers responded to the 5900 block of Dressell Ave for a "Cutting, Just Occurred."

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This Day in History: October 30, 2026 On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested. Known as the Tsar Bomba , it exploded above the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya with a force of about 50 megatons—thousands of times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Conducted during the Cold War, the test demonstrated Soviet weapons capabilities as tensions with the United States intensified. It remains a defining example of the destructive

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