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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 lifted and people can get more use from the baseball/softball diamonds and soccer/lacrosse/football/ru...

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 legislation as territorial governor that would have abolished indentured servitude, which many histor...