Tower Grove Park will break ground Tuesday on new basketball courts β bringing them back decades after their removal and, in the eyes of some, helping make the park more racially inclusive.
"It is painfully clear that my colleagues are not familiar with the disinvestment that has occurred in southeast city," said Alderman Shane Cohn, of Dutchtown.
The number of lanes on both sides of Interstate 55 will be reduced between Reavis Barracks and Lindbergh Wednesday and Thursday as part of an ongoing bridge reconstruction and rehab project.
The legislation, spurred by a news investigation, allows workers to be barred from health care jobs for obstructing investigations into staff misconduct. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the bill Friday.
By Molly Parker Lee Enterprises Midwest and Beth Hundsdorfer Capitol News Illinois
The break was one of 16 the city responded to between Friday and Sunday, prompted by the Friday failure of a 20-inch main in the St. Louis Hills neighborhood, a city spokesman said.
Victims of a former Kirkwood family law attorney who falsified dozens of court documents confronted the lawyer on Monday and recounted the "nightmare" he imposed on clients.
An ex-judge, a criminologist and an ex-legislator hope to give St. Louis and Missouri counties a way to adopt tougher gun restrictions than those in state law.