EDWARDSVILLE - The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced there will be lane closures on Illinois Route 143 near Old Alton-Edwardsville Road starting Monday, August 1, 2022. IDOT says the work is necessary to complete repairs to the Marathon Pipeline work in that area. Greeding Construction and Marathon Petroleum will be completing the work. “Motorists may experience traffic congestion with delays and should allow extra time for trips through the area,” IDOT said. “Motorists should avoid the work area and when feasible use alternate routes. Drivers are urged to pay close attention to changed conditions and signs in the work zones, obey the posted speed limits and refrain from using mobile devices.”
ST. LOUIS - A historic week of rainfall in the St. Louis region led to two rounds of flash flooding over just three days. Now people are piecing their lives back together as they clean up their homes. Many organizations are offering help to those in need, but if you're one of the lucky ones [...]
EDWARDSVILLE - iCAN Clinic is revolutionizing the way they treat patients dealing with chronic pain issues. By not using opioids and instead helping patients to address the root cause of their pain, their 40-point functional medical exam is changing patient management and outcomes. Dr. Michael Harbison was once a patient who was treated with extensive opioid prescriptions after he was injured in Iraq while in the military. “I first injured my back in Iraq and then reinjured it at Special Forces Assessment and Selection which led to my medical retirement from the military. Back in the early 2000s, the main treatment for pain was opioids. Every doctor was prescribing opioids, which was standard practice at that time. For me, that meant addiction to these medicines which subsequently caused severe liver complications,” Dr. Harbison said. Dr. Michael Harbison eventually leveraged his own experience to create a clinic where a new concept of pain management is currently
For chrissake: Neither worker pay nor benefits grew at anything close to a record pace last quarter unless you insist on never adjusting anything for inflation. Here's what total compensation for workers looks like over the past two years: Since the beginning of 2021, ECI has risen 6% while inflation has gone up 11%. Employers ...continue reading "Worker pay and benefits are falling"
After more than two weeks of asking SSM Health for an on camera interview, our I-Team’s Paula Vasan gets answers about what they’re doing to prevent more violence.
After teasing the news in a recent video update, Ringo Starr has now announced full details about his upcoming EP, EP3. The four-track collection, which can be pre-ordered now, will…
HIGHLAND PARK – Governor JB Pritzker announced today that the State’s request for a U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster declaration has been granted for several counties in Northeast Illinois that were affected by the shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. “Thank you to Administrator Guzman and the SBA for making low-interest disaster loans available to our Highland Park community during this time of tragedy and grieving,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “With the SBA’s assistance, Highland Park residents can focus on healing—knowing that the state and nation has their back.” The declaration will make low-interest working capital loans from the Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) program available to help small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private, non-profit organizations whose ordinary and necessary financial obligations cannot be met as a
After giving the Upside Down the most metal concert its ever seen, Eddie Munson made his debut at Lollapalooza on Thursday. During Metallica's headlining set on the opening day of the…
Ring has been bedding down as many law enforcement partners as possible, turning cops into brand evangelists with the implicit (and sometimes, explicit) promise they’ll have access to private citizens’ recordings. Ring likes this because it increases its market share. Cops like it because it gives them more camera coverage in the areas they patrol, […]
The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (IPHF) held a juried international photography contest collecting submissions from talented artists from all around the world.
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH CRIME? Is it up or down? And what about violent crime — not just murders, but things like robberies and assaults? Questions like these are getting asked a lot these days. In St. Louis County, the most populous county in the region, violent crime fell modestly in 2021 from a spike […]
Problems started the day Phillip Clay moved into the Raphael. He didn’t have heat for nearly a week, he says, and when the heat did come on, the knob on the radiator didn’t work. He didn’t have hot water, and when that was fixed, it was too hot to use.
The best new taco in town is the product of divorce. Twelve years ago, Fernando De La Torré Velasquez owned Tower Taco on Cherokee. His then-wife was the general manager.
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