Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. EAST ST. LOUIS — A teenager from Belleville was fatally shot over the weekend in East St. Louis. Parker Bujnak ...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A shooting Saturday night in St. Clair County left a teenager dead. According to Illinois State Police, East St. Louis responded to the shooting at about 8:40 p.m ...

Drawn by employment opportunities in wartime industries, between 10,000 and 12,000 African American people left the south for East St. Louis, Illinois in 1916 and 1917 as part of the Great Migration.