EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A shooting Sunday night in East St. Louis left one person dead. According to the Illinois State Police, the shooting happened at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday in the 2400 block ...

Drawn by employment opportunities in wartime industries, between 10,000 and 12,000 African American people left the south for East St. Louis, Illinois in 1916 and 1917 as part of the Great Migration.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Tracy describes the moments before, during and after a police crash that left an ...

A 41-year-old Cahokia Heights man was shot in East St. Louis Sunday night and later died at an area hospital from the gunshot wounds he sustained. Cicero Maple, whose last known address was in the ...