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Rediscover Alton: National Great Rivers Museum is hands-on experience Dominic Genetti, dominic.genetti@hearst.com FacebookTwitterEmail Do you know how the Chain of Rocks got its name? A trip to the National Great Rivers Museum and the Melvin Price Lock and Dam teach you these and much more in a single visit. Allison Rhanor is the new director of the museum, and she’s quick to point out there’s more to a river than its flowing streams, riverboats and barges.  “What we try to do here is s...

Madison County leaders remove trash along highway The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail Madison County Building and Zoning Director Chris Doucleff and two county employees pick up trash May 12. They went to two problem areas, Illinois 43, just east of the Illinois 255 overpass, and the intersection of Interstate 270 and Illinois 3. Madison County launched its Clean Communities program in March and within its first two months, more than 1,500 resource tool kits distributed to individuals and groups...

ST. LOUIS — An emphasis on repurposing “legacy” heavy industrial areas and a...

FreightWeekSTL tour touts river infrastructure Tour touts waterway infrastructure FacebookTwitterEmail 1of8 Participants of a riverboat cruise on the Tom Sawyer talk with the Eads Bridge in the background. The tour was one of the few live events of FreightWeekSTL2021, an annual industry conference sponsored in part by St. Louis Regional Freightway, an arm of Bi-State Development. The tour gave people a chance to see the industrial operations on the river as well as infrastructure improvement. ...

EAST ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man is heading to prison after arranging to purchase a...

Interstate 70 reopened Monday morning after the weekend closure for a “historic traffic shift,” the Colorado Department of Transportation said. The interstate closed from Friday night to Monday morning for the “Mile High Shift” between Washington Street and Interstate 270. The closure allowed crews to work around the clock to move all six lanes of traffic between Brighton and Colorado boulevards from the existing viaduct to the future westbound lanes of the lowered section o...

EDWARDSVILLE — Moneer Damra left a lasting impact on his friends at Southern Illinois...

Marylands Controversial Highway Widening Proposal Scaled Back Interstate 270, the Capital Beltway, will no longer by widened as part of the I-495/I-270 Managed Lanes Project. May 13, 2021, 6am PDT | James Brasuell | Briana Adhikusuma reports: "The Maryland Department of Transportation has removed the Capital Beltway from a plan to widen Interstate 270, after the broader plan drew months of opposition from local officials, residents and environmental advocates." As noted by Adhikusuma, the ...

County weighs adding residential properties to enterprise zones Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 5of5 EDWARDSVILLE — A proposed expansion and change to Madison County’s Southwestern Madison County Enterprise Zone has led to sharp disagreement over whether to include residential development. The Madison County Board’s Grants Committee last week discussed several proposed changes, including adding territory, extending tax abatement time periods to 10 from four ...

Shots fired into vehicle leave 1 woman dead, another wounded March 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Shots fired into a moving vehicle left one woman dead and another wounded on Interstate 270 in north St. Louis County, authorities say. Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Dallas Thompson said the driver whose vehicle came under fire wasnt struck by the gunfire but was injured after crashing, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. He was taken to a hospital along with his survivi...