ALTON – Alton officials are moving forward with applying for a Madison County grant to cover part of the cost to prepare an updated plan for the city’s park facilities. The city has determined its current Park, Open Space, and Recreation Facilities Management Plan – which was prepared in 2012 by HeartLands Conservancy – is “outdated and in need of replacement,” according to a resolution passed on Monday by the Committee of the Whole. The grant funding sought by the city comes from the Metro East Parks and Recreation District’s (MEPRD) Community Planning Grant program. If the city’s application is approved, the grant would cover up to 40% of the cost for HeartLands to prepare the updated parks plan. Alton would agree to contribute at least 60% of any awarded amount in local matching funds. At Monday’s meeting, Alderwoman Rosetta Brown suggested city officials gather feedback from community members about improvements they’d
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois leaders went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to Chicago, escalating a clash between Democratic-led states and the Republican administration during an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the nation’s third-largest city. The legal challenge came hours after a judge blocked the Guard's deployment in [...]
After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band’s first proper […]
According to the complaint, a ranking member of the Latin Kings sent Snapchat messages saying, “2k on information when you get him” and “10k if u take him down.”
The suit accuses ICE agents and other federal agents of shooting, gassing and detaining people who were reporting on or peacefully protesting arrests of immigrants across the country.
After being sworn in as Missouri’s first woman Attorney General, Catherine Hanaway promised to continue her predecessor’s ongoing legal battle with with St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery.
The White House claims the deployment is necessary to protect federal immigration agents and facilities. JB Pritzker and other Democratic leaders warn it would just escalate tensions.
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It’s one of the biggest bike rallies in the region, drawing thousands of riders here to this small river town every first weekend in October. But even after a quick hiccup from an attendee this year, organizers say it’s proof this event is about more than motorcycles.
CHICAGO, IL, AND WASHINGTON, DC — The League of Women Voters of Illinois and the League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following joint statement in response to reports that the federal government is preparing to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago and other communities across Illinois: “The League stands with our members, residents of Illinois, and the elected government of our sovereign state in renewing our condemnation of troop deployment in Illinois because there is no justification for such action. Chicago is not experiencing an emergency that requires federal force. To be clear, there is no war zone in Chicago or anywhere else in Illinois unless federal troops are bent on creating one. “Illinoisans will not be bullied into submission by acquiescing to warrantless attacks on our citizens nor to inhumane treatment of our neighbors and family members. We have no interest in federal troops descending on our neighborhoods to impose terror
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