EAST ST. LOUIS – Lawyer Paul Evans of O’Fallon drew St. Clair County board districts according to the 2020 census and offered his map in U.S. district court to replace the one passed by the board in May based on population estimates.
EAST ST. LOUIS – St. Clair County board members who trusted estimates when they drew districts missed the mark by more than 1,000 in seven districts and more than 400 in 11 others, according to lawyer Paul Evans of O’Fallon. There are 29 board districts.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Democrat St. Clair County board chairman Mark Kern violated Illinois statute and the U.S. Constitution by drawing districts without census data, Republican board member Ed Cockrell of New Athens alleges in federal court.
CAHOKIA HEIGHTS – This newly formed city whose residents on average earn less than $20,000 annually will pay its mayor Curtis McCall Sr. $85,025.20, according to its payroll sheet.
BELLEVILLE – St. Clair County jurors, the first to decide an ovarian cancer trial against Johnson & Johnson since Canada issued an assessment of the topic, apparently found it too weak to support claims of decedent Betty Driscoll of Smithton.
How about sharing? Let the rest of us in on it – you know, the people who pay your salaries, the people you work for, the citizens of St. Clair County.
BELLEVILLE – Former judge Ron Duebbert can pursue a malicious prosecution claim against former St. Clair County state’s attorney Brendan Kelly, Circuit Judge Daniel Emge ruled in December.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Casino Queen directors and former owners plan to seek appellate review of an order rejecting individual arbitration of claims that they cheated casino employees out of retirement income.
MOUNT VERNON – Jonathan Little tried for five years to prove someone else caused him to crash into a railroad overpass, and Fifth District appellate judges recently ruled that he can keep trying to prove it.
MOUNT VERNON – Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf correctly immunized St. Clair County and its 911 emergency telephone system against a wrongful death suit, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Dec. 9.
BELLEVILLE – Lawyer David Cates of Swansea drove drunk a day after his mother Judy Cates lost an election for Illinois Supreme Court, according to state police.
EAST ST. LOUIS - Tavern on Main, a Belleville restaurant that until the lockdown served as watering hole for St. Clair County courthouse personnel, chose not to defend an injury suit in that courthouse.
Attorney Laninya Cason, a native East St. Louisan now living in Belleville, said she welcomes the raised consciousness of and for Black people across the country.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker claims his progressive income tax will only affect the rich. But Illinoisans making as little as $26,100 would see an income tax hike under rates Pritzker cited in his budget address.
BELLEVILLE – While St. Clair County Sheriff Rick Watson relies on a contract for Cahokia police managers to justify a pension equal to his last salary as police chief in 2011, the village currently challenges the document’s validity in court.
