Four years worth of audits of East St. Louis Township, Illinois, do not mention $280,000 in credit card spending by the Supervisor Oliver Hamilton and two others that was over budget and not approved by the township board of trustees. The auditing firm, Scheffel Boyle, said it could not comment on the audits’ findings.
Edwardsville and Normal, both previously unbeaten, faced off on the pitch on a sizzling Saturday afternoon. The host Tigers, ranked No. 1 in the Belleville News-Democrat pool, received goals from three different players and improved to 11-0-3 with a 3-0 victory over the Ironmen.
At least 26 civilians were killed in fresh government airstrikes on the contested city of Aleppo, Syrian activists said Sunday, as the United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on the spiraling violence in Syria but failed to take any action because of deep divisions between Russia and the Western powers.
The same four Democratic justices on the Illinois Supreme Court who blocked the Independent Map ballot question refused to answer whether a future referendum could be fixed. Any hope for stopping state lawmakers from picking the voters they desire seems very dim.
The school was open from 1973 to 1983. The $21,000 bronze statue is the result of a four-year fundraising effort and a new scholarship is being started for descendants of alumni of the school. The statue was placed next to the football field at Granite City Senior High School.
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