Eckert Facebook News Today

Belleville citizens, restaurateurs and bar owners feel like they’ve been played by their mayor. A lot of them.  Like many would-be dictators around the country, Mayor Mark Eckert enforced COVID-19 “guidelines,” shutting down indoor dining and advising citizens to stay home - guidelines he himself blithely ignored. He joins a shameful list of lockdown hypocrites: Gov. Pritzker’s family outings to their horse farm in Wisconsin and equestrian estate in Florida; Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s...

Like many politicians across the country, Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert is feeling the wrath of citizenry: He dined out in St. Louis where Covid restrictions are less severe, while indoor dining in his city is shut down and people are advised to stay home. Eckert and his wife on Saturday patronized Rigazzis on the Hill, an event captured on social media, which prompted the mayor to apologize on Facebook. On Sunday, Eckert wrote: "On Saturday December 12th, my wife and I took a drive to look at C...