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A wall about the length of a football field collapsed, as did the roof above it after the severe storm hit Friday night.

A wall about the length of a football field collapsed, as did the roof above it after the severe storm hit Friday night.

A wall about the length of a football field collapsed, as did the roof above it after the severe storm hit Friday night.

Food and water, recommending red cross and salvation army. the most important thing that you can do is pray for the victims and their families. now id like to introduce governor prisker. governor: thank you, mr. mayor and good evening to all of you. im here at the madison county public safety building in edwardsville with the illinois homeland security adviser and director of the illinois emergency management agency, our general alicia and additional statewide and local ima personnel. we are joi...

Edwardsville music stores survive the pandemic New customers are learning to play music and buying goods Scott Marion, smarion@edwpub.net FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Mojo’s Music manager Turk Myers, right, helps regular customer Shar Joyce as she picks up a new guitar case at the Edwardsville specialty retailer at 144 N. Main St.Intelligencer file photosShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Addison takes piano lessons on Zoom with Tara Wright from Swing City Music. Swing City moved all of its music lessons ...

Patton dubs Plummer Park, TheCENTER as accomplishments City plans for parking, recreation Charles Bolinger, charles.bolinger@edwpub.net FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 2of3 3of3 EDWARDSVILLE — Plummer Family Park, parking solutions and TheCENTER are among Mayor Hal Patton’s 2021 predictions as he looks ahead to his final few months in office. The park, which opened last summer, is the crown of the city’s park system and Patton said he expects it to develop even further once restrictions are li...

Terri Maddox / Belleville News-Democrat EDWARDSVILLE — A controversial bronze statue of Ninian Edwards will, for the time being, remain where it is installed, in a small plaza near the city’s center. The statue, the plaza and Edwards’ slavery Edwards, whom the city is named after, was a founding political leader in Illinois, serving as its only territorial governor in the early 1800s and later as a U.S. Senator and the state’s third governor. He owned enslaved people and vetoed l...