Belleville News

Tour de Belleville organizer Phil Elmore said he looks forward to being able to ride in next year's event, but was content Friday night just to see the start of the ride.

Former Belleville resident and keyboardist Neal Doughty has seen a lot of things change in the music business over the years, has traveled the world many times, and has just about seen it all.

An embattled cafe proposal may not be dead. Michael Lieb and Angela Prosser, a couple who were rejected twice in their bid to turn the old tavern at 400 Mascoutah Avenue into a cafe, have separated.

Louis Officer on the blog: [IL] East St. Louis Police hired officer who has a domestic violence warrant - ...One of the 10 new officers sworn in last week had an outstanding warrant on a charge of domestic battery.

The owners of an O'Fallon cafe filed suit against a Belleville building owner for failing to renovate the building it planned to lease, according to a St.

A Belleville man was arrested Tuesday after police found him on the roof of the St.

A cave, obstacles atop telephone poles, and the challenge of working together to pick up objects with a stick taught 19 junior high students from Belleville a few lessons during the past few weeks.

Landlords must now register with the city to rent their spaces. Mayor Mark Eckert has said the new ordinance, which the council on Monday unanimously passed, is intended to help city officials identify repeat-offender landlords, those who create problems for the city by not addressing crime or disrepair.

This year marks the 20th that Belleville Sister Cities Inc. has participated in a youth exchange program with Paderborn, Germany.

Prosecutors charged a man accused of breaking into a Belleville, Illinois home and beating a man when he tried to intervene.

St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville will hold a free public presentation next week about managing diabetes.

Where do you draw the line on roadside stands? That is the question that has some people angry with the city of Belleville and Mayor Mark Eckert for the ordinance that bans transient vendors except for nonprofit events and firework stands.

A man threatened an elderly couple with a hammer and robbed them as they entered their home on Wednesday , the St.

City leaders have decided to hold off on trying for what would have been Belleville's 20th tax-increment financing district.

The investigation continues into the motorcycle accident that killed a Smithton man early Wednesday on Illinois 15 near Illinois 159 in Belleville.

The group that turns around run-down homes in the west end of town is getting a boost from some extra volunteers.

A motorcyclist died in a crash on Illinois 161 Friday night, making it the second fatality involving a motorcyclist in the city this week.

Traffic was being diverted around a head-on collision on South Belt West around 12:30 p.m. Thursday as emergency crews worked to clean up the wreckage and attend to the vehicles' occupants.

A Belleville man said he's not a hero, but he helped revive a 14-month-old girl found floating face down in an inflatable pool.

Q. I am looking for information about a charm I found when we tore down my grandmother's house near Baldwin in the 1990s.