Collinsville Illinois

Oakwood teen heads to Vegas
Danville Commercial News
Next month, Lane will represent Illinois at the National Association of Student Councils' national meeting, which is June 22-24 in Las Vegas. The National Association of Student Councils is a program of the National Association of Secondary School ...

Illinois basketball coach Groce to speak May 31 in Collinsville
Belleville News Democrat
The Illinois High School Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum's annual fundraising dinner will be held May 31 at the Gateway Conference Center in Collinsville. The social hour begins at 6:30 p.m., and dinner seating will begin at 7:15. Illinois men's ...

Tom Kacich: Illinois' openness still merits bad grade
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, and John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, joined with 225 other Republicans and two Democrats last Thursday on a motion to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act. It was the 37th time the Republican-dominated House had done so, but ...

Belleville News Democrat
Day trip south: Winding roads, soaring bluffs and forest hikes await
Belleville News Democrat
On a clear day, you can see forever. Steven Wake, of Belleville, and Astrid Burkart and her son Cameron, 7, of Collinsville, paused on the deck. This was one stop along the way to a day in Southern Illinois. "Cameron had a wrestling tournament in ...

Belleville News Democrat
Real Estate: What's your neighbor's home selling for?
Belleville News Democrat
4504 Cookson Road; from First Collinsville Bank; to Sean Turner and Heidi Turner; $12,000. FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS ... 35 Roselawn Ave.; from Prairie State Properties LLC; to Home Builders Assoc. of Greater Southwest Illinois; $18,500. FREEBURG. * 2 North ...

Bernard Schoenburg: Erika Harold's move raises questions of possible campaign
The State Journal-Register
John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, got the appointment to the ballot from GOP leaders and won a hard-fought 2012 race in the 13th against Democratic Bloomington physician David Gill and independent John Hartman of Edwardsville. Reports from the ... “I ...

Record Powerball jackpot inspires office pools
Canton Daily Ledger
In Collinsville, Ill., just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, seven firefighters were pooling their money for a $14 ticket that offered seven plays. Mike Harris keeps the pool in order by distributing a photocopy of the ticket to each ...

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SIUE honors young writers
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
For the past 20 years, juniors and seniors from Illinois high schools in 11 Southern Illinois counties have expressed their creativity in writing a fiction or non-fiction piece or a poem and submit their works of art to the SIUE Friends of Lovejoy ...

Officers train for dealing with the mentally ill
Alton Telegraph
A total of 17 officers from the region received training: four from Alton, three from Collinsville, two each from Edwardsville, East Alton and Highland, and one each from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Maryville, Madison and Glen Carbon.

Collinsville club news for the week of May 15
STLtoday.com
Collinsville's Lakeview Garden Club held a meeting hosted by Patti Brown April 10. President Barb Heppermann called the meeting to order and members recited the Pledge of Allegiance and club collect. Members Patti Brown, Ruby Brown, Thilerna French, ...

Belleville News Democrat
Illinois Class 3A sectionals
STLtoday.com
Martinus Mitchell, Collinsville, 56-8; 5. Keith King, Peoria Richwoods, 53-7. Triple jump: 1. Jamion Nash, Belleville West, 48-3.5; 2. Julian Harvey, Edwardsville, 45-3; 3. Aaron Dunn, Belleville East, 44-10.75. Discus: 1. Kyrin Tucker, Normal West ...
Tigers put themselves in position to defend their girls state track titleBelleville News Democrat

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Wheaton's Knight passes state bar exam
Chicago Tribune
All of the candidates passed the Illinois state bar examination and an ethics examination, and have been certified by the Committees on Character and Fitness, according to a news release from the Supreme Court of Illinois. ... Ottawa; Supreme Court ...

Record Powerball jackpot inspires office pools
WAND
In Collinsville, Ill., just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, seven firefighters were pooling their money for a $14 ticket that offered seven plays. Mike Harris keeps the pool in order by distributing a photocopy of the ticket to each ...

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Medical Marijuana Passes The Illinois Senate
fox2now.com
COLLINSVILLE, IL (KTVI) – Illinois could soon become the 19th state to allow the use of marijuana for medical reasons. The Illinois state Senate passed, “House Bill 1, The Medical Cannabis Pilot Program” by a 35-21 vote on Friday. This four year pilot ...

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Former Collinsville Boy Scout volunteer in prison for sex abuse
KMOV.com
BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A former Boy Scout volunteer from southwestern Illinois has begun serving a six-year prison sentence for sexually molesting boys in his family. Fifty-five-year-old Jon Demers, of Collinsville, was convicted last month in St. Clair ...

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Motions seek dismissal of suits based on tax sales
Alton Telegraph
Barberis, of Collinsville, ran unsuccessfully against Democrat Mark Von Nida in November's race for Madison County circuit clerk. Barberis was the first attorney to file a proposed class action suit in connection with the fraud scheme. Bathon is a ...

Illinois senators to vote on conceal carry proposal Friday
KMOV.com
The Home Rule said that towns with more than 25,000 people, like Collinsville, O'Fallon and East St. Louis, would have the right to make further restrictions on where citizens could carry guns. The bill would also prohibit carrying guns in government ...

Moody's assigns Aa3 rating to the City of Collinsville's (IL) $4.5 million GO ...
Moodys.com (press release) (registration)
Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Aa3 rating to the City of Collinsville's (IL) $4.5 million General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2013A and $6.3 million General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2013B. Concurrently, Moody's has affirmed ...

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Illinois historic sites extend hours for tourist season
STLtoday.com
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • Six Illinois historic sites are operating seven days a week for the convenience of tourists traveling in the spring and summer. Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville will be open seven days a week through October. Lewis and Clark in ...

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Frost Supply Adds New Employees, Opens New Automatic Fastening Tools ...
PR Web (press release)
Frost's knowledgeable staff continues to serve customers from headquarters in Maryland Heights, MO and our seven full service locations in the city of St. Louis, including O'Fallon, MO, two in Columbia, MO, as well as Collinsville, IL and Lebanon, IL ...

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