GRANITE CITY – The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that, weather permitting, Illinois Route 162 between 23rd Street and Maryville Road in Granite City will be closed starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, through Thursday, Nov. 8. The road closure is necessary to allow the Alton & Southern Railroad to rehabilitate […]
by TERI MADDOX Belleville News-Democrat Contractors install solar panels at the Shelby Solar Farm on the east side of Shelbyville along Illinois 16 in this 2016 file photo. A small town in St. Clair County is hoping that solar could serve as an economic engine to replace coal. PROVIDED PHOTO You’d be hard-pressed to find […]
PONTOON BEACH – The Illinois Department of Transportation announces that, weather permitting, Illinois Route 111 between I-55/70 and Sand Prairie Road in Pontoon Beach will be closed starting at 8 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 6 and continuing for three days through Wednesday, Aug. 8. The road closure is necessary to allow the Alton & Southern […]
The release of President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan has sparked renewed discussion about the vital need to rebuild and modernize our nation’s infrastructure and the role that individual states, local communities and the private sector will have to play in funding that rebuilding. In the St. Louis region — the country’s freight nexus […]