Madison County board member Chris Guy presented two redistricting maps with 29 and 27 districts for the board to review as alternatives to the 25-district map proposed by Chairman Kurt Prenzler.
Municipalities throughout Illinois are saddled with huge pension debt. Some try to get out from under it by selling city assets. Those with nothing of value to sell may resort to laying off city workers, cutting back services, etc., and still come up short.
Rising costs for Illinois’ 650 local pension funds are wreaking havoc on city budgets, taxpayer wallets and the retirement security of hundreds of thousands of police, firefighter and municipal workers and retirees, according to the independent, non-profit economic research group Wirepoints.
BELLEVILLE – Stephen Tillery, ready for trial on a claim that weed killer paraquat caused four plaintiffs to suffer Parkinson’s disease, won the biggest judgment ever in an American trial and lost it at the Illinois Supreme Court.
One defendant among many in a lawsuit alleging toxic dust and fumes caused the leukemia-related death of a Winchester machine shop worker in 2018 has been dismissed from the twp-year-old Madison County legal action.
BELLEVILLE — Bi-State and one of its bus drivers are facing a suit after a passenger was thrown from his motorized scooter and suffered severe injuries.
EDWARDSVILLE — Granite City plaintiffs claim they conveyed the title to a property on Maryville Road to a Madison County land trust that refuses to pay for the land per the sales contract.
MOUNT VERNON – Donna Godair of Granite City can’t sue Metro East Sanitary District over injuries from a fall near the Nameoki ditch behind her home, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on March 17.
BELLEVILLE — The former sales director of a St. Clair County trucking business claims he was fired in retaliation for reporting the company's alleged state law violation.
