Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville hosts about 350,000 visitors each year. Much less well-known are the sites where 27 monuments once stood in St. Louis. The mounds, carefully constructed and engineered by Indigenous people between 800-1350 CE, were destroyed by white settlers to make way for urban development during the 19th century. In her new book “Mound City,” historian Patricia Cleary details the history of those mounds, the strange paradox of local settlers claiming the moniker of “Mound City” while destroying them, and their contribution to the cultural identity of St. Louisans and Americans across the country today.
Officials announced the hiring of a new police chief, about six months after the Board of Aldermen ousted the department's top cop which led to a lawsuit against the municipality.
The project's developer said it has spoken to at least four different coffee chains about locating at the site. It's also pursuing anew-to-market steakhouse and burger concepts.
Meta is actually making moves to live up to its promise to integrate Threads into the open ActivityPub standard used by a variety of “fediverse” platforms such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. It’s a fundamental boost to the concept of protocols over platforms, but it’s still not entirely clear how “open” Meta is really going to […]
The Supreme Court has decided to leave their two biggest cases for the last day of the term. Apparently they want to drop them Friday morning and then get the hell out of Dodge. I'm not quite sure what that means. But in the category of big-but-not-world-shaking decisions, today they published their opinion in Securities ...continue reading "The Supreme Court hobbled the power of the SEC today. But what about everyone else?"
Jurors convicted 21-year-old Cleveland V. Washington Jr. on Wednesday of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of Deionta McCurry, 23, on Aug. 21, 2022 in the Dutchtown neighborhood.
In May, a jury found Thomas Kinworthy Jr. guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree assault, burglary, resisting arrest and three counts of armed criminal action after a nearly two-week trial.
Slash is set to make a special in-store appearance at Easy Street Records in Seattle on July 7.The Guns N’ Roses guitarist will perform with his blues band, bassist Johnny Griparic,…
The aircraft giant's deal of one of its St. Louis-based suppliers has been smoother than expected, said a union leader, while a local leader of the company said the transition has been "awesome."
by Tom Finan, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Construction Forum On Wednesday (June 26th) ARCO responded to questions from Construction Forum regarding its pullout on a major project. In one of the most unusual disputes in memory over a construction project, $6.5B ARCO Construction notified its subs last Friday (June 21st ) on the $150M Gateway […]
The imminent closure of the location at the Chesterfield Mall might not mean the end of the restaurant chain's presence in the western St. Louis suburb. Here's why.
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