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The $5 ticket was purchased at Royals Liquor on North Lindbergh Boulevard.

The city is considering a proposal that would add traffic calming measures to Skinker Boulevard. Advocates are hopeful it would improve safer access to Forest Park.

The City of St. Louis community blood drive will be held on Monday, February 26th, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 208 of St. Louis City Hall.

Locals who enjoy spending their time on the pickleball courts may soon be in luck, as the alleged largest club in the world will soon be in the neighborhood.

In an unsurprising turn of events, the DC Circuit Court has ruled that Donald Trump doesn't have legal immunity for anything he happens to have done while president. Trump's lawyers continue to assert that this means "every future president who leaves office will be immediately indicted by the opposing party," but the court put quick ...continue reading "Court says it’s OK to prosecute Trump"

All tenant leases at Chesterfield Mall will come to an end on August 31, setting up the mall to permanently close this summer.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  It was September 2021, and developer Steve Smith had finally finished the over $200 million rehab of the abandoned Federal Mogul factory into the City Foundry food hall and entertainment complex in Midtown. He and his firm submitted their application to redeem the $20 million in state historic tax credits they […]

From Leader Publications:  The Fox C-6 School District is taking steps to fix deteriorating asphalt at the Seckman schools campus and at Rickman Auditorium and to improve energy efficiency at Lone Dell Elementary School. Board of Education members voted 6-0 Jan. 16 to spend a total of $1,002,476 on the capital improvement projects. Board member […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  St. Louis aldermen on Friday gave final approval for tax incentives to support the redevelopment of a downtown St. Louis hotel. Aldermen voted 9-5 to approve subsidies to help fund Midas Hospitality’s $50 million renovation of the 266-room hotel inside the former Edison Brothers Building at 400 S. 14th St. […]

From St. Louis Magazine:  If you’ve driven by Westport Plaza in recent months, you may have noticed something curious. Its gilded office tower, the iconic shimmery gold structure that has defined the northwest county skyline for decades, looks a little different thanks to a rectangular slice that’s been carved out of its west-facing facade. It’s […]

PASADENA, CALIF. - Imagine all your favorite Illinois Route 66 photo ops packed onto one float in the legendary Rose Bowl Parade on January 1, 2024! That's exactly what happened on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California, with Illinois Route 66 icons like the Joliet Prison, Shea's Gas Station Museum, and the World's Largest Catsup Bottle (to name just a few) represented on an amazing float. Here's how it happened. In Pasadena, the theme of “Celebrating a World of Music” was chosen for the 135th Rose Bowl Parade. And in Chicago, the Illinois Office of Tourism (IOT) team pondered that theme as they thought about the state's rich musical heritage and the legacy of music associated with the greater Chicago area. Those musical thoughts, along with the IOT award-winning marketing campaign of “Middle of Everything” sparked the Enjoy Illinois float theme: “Illinois: The Middle of Beats and Blues.” “The thing is, music is a universal language, and of

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In a rare spirit of bipartisanship, local Democrat and Republican election officials met on Jan. 30, 2024 to voice mutual concern regarding a need for more people to help run elections this year. The news conference coincided with Help America…

From Next City:  Buzz is building around converting offices into apartment buildings — and for good reason. These conversions can play a part in addressing three pressing urban challenges: a lack of housing, an oversupply of office space and the imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It’s time for cities to rethink how they use […]

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  The St. Louis Housing, Urban Development and Zoning (HUDZ) voted Jan. 17 to advance a tax subsidy supporting the remodeling of the struggling Oyo Hotel in downtown St. Louis, despite lingering concerns about the developer’s position on union Labor and workers organizing. Maryland Heights-based Midas Hospitality plans to spend […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Attorneys for controversial developer and landlord Lux Living threatened legal action against St. Louis over its refusal to release records detailing what the city’s development arm has shared with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office about Lux and its owners. A Dec. 15 letter from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner attorney Renato […]

From First Alert 4:  The bridge at Union and Lindell in St. Louis City is a major entrance point to Forest Park and connects multiple city eighborhoods. It’s also long been near the top of the list when it comes to structurally deficient bridges; now a plan to redo the bridge is underway with a […]

Several days of whirlwind news, including the sudden resignation of a new police chief and the the dissolution of the city police department, has left residents wondering what's happening in the small town of New Haven.