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Real Estate: What’s your neighbor’s home selling for?

Recent real estate transactions for St. Clair County.

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Work has started on the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities inside the historic Lincoln School in Edwardsville. See a gallery of photographs at bnd.com.

Former Edwardsville school to become Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities

Political debates, academic conferences and guest lecturers from around the world ... these are just some of the ideas being discussed for the new Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities.

Crime

The campaign for 40 days of non-violence kicked off Friday night at the East St. Louis City Hall. From left, participants included East St. Louis Treasurer and program coordinator Joe Lewis Jr.; retired St. Clair County Judge Milton Wharton; Anthony Gray, the attorney for the Michael Brown family; Anita Brandon and her husband, St. Clair County Judge Walter Brandon; and East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks Jr.

East St. Louis kicks off 40 days of non-violence

An exuberant crowd gathered inside the East St. Louis City Hall rotunda Friday night to show their support for the city’s campaign for 40 days of non-violence in East St. Louis and surrounding communities.

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Matt Flach owner of Recess Brewing is hoping for a fall of 2014 opening of his new brew pub located at 307 N. Main St. in Edwardsville. The brew pub is located just down the street from the Madison county courthouse.

Microbrewery now on tap in Edwardsville

Recess Brewing has opened in Edwardsville.

Sports

Attorney Mark Bogen speaks to the media during a press conference about the death of Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Chicago. Bogen, an attorney for the Banks family, said the Cubs great died of a heart attack.

Family attorney: Cubs great Ernie Banks died of heart attack

Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks died after a heart attack, an attorney representing the Hall of Famer's family said Sunday.

Features

Lauren, right, feeds an injured eagle with a syringe attached to a tube as Senior Wildlife Tech Pam Lippert holds the bird.

TreeHouse intern trades kangaroos and koala for bald eagles

Lauren Grimes is used to chasing around kangaroos and koalas, but she recently found herself on a rescue mission for a bald eagle.

State|Region

Illinois man suffers sudden memory loss

For two months, Travis Webb has lived with a woman he doesn't remember marrying, in a house he has no recollection of becoming their home.

Nation|World

People walk through the snow on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Chicago. A storm system diving out of the Midwest has the potential to slowly coat from Philadelphia up to Massachusetts and Maine with snow beginning late Sunday night into Monday and intensifying greatly well into Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.

Northeast braces for ‘potentially historic’ snowstorm

A winter that has largely spared the Northeast thus far is about to arrive with gusto: A storm the National Weather Service called “potentially historic” could dump 2 to 3 feet of snow from northern New Jersey to Connecticut.

Opinion

Jobs are key to recovery

We keep being told that the national economy is improving, but for most of us, it doesn’t feel like it.

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