Poor educational performance, higher taxes and fiscal irresponsibility are the driving factors in one Fairview Heights neighborhood renewed efforts to detach from East St. Louis School District 189, residents say.
Starting with the team’s arrival from Los Angeles in 1995, Belleville Alderman Ed Dintelman and his family and friends had a ringside seat for St. Louis Rams football.
Winning tickets in Wednesday night’s record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot were sold in suburban Los Angeles, Tennessee and Florida, a spokesman for the California lottery says. The winning numbers were 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.
There could be a natural disaster in Indiana or Missouri that drives population to Illinois. It could happen. But the likely scenario is that Illinois will continue losing population.
Despite a $1.5 billion payout, residents want to pay off debts for family members and give back to charities, churches and schools instead of spending it all on themselves.
