Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cahokia Heights residents are being exposed to bacteria and parasites possibly spreading because of chronic sewage backups and ...

Around 900 years ago, Indigenous Americans at Cahokia — the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico until colonial times — felled a giant tree and transported it more than 110 miles (180 kilometers ...

Water pools on the streets in Cahokia Heights during a summer storm. Rain causes anxiety for Cahokia Heights residents because it regularly leads to flooding that makes the sewers overflow.

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. – Cahokia Heights has agreed to $30 million in fixes in an ongoing legal dispute over its sewage system. A consent decree filed between the U.S. Department of Justice, the ...

Cahokia was an early experiment in urban living, illustrated by this William R. Iseminger painting at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. COLLINSVILLE – A group of anthropologists have received a ...

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill — The day after police announced that one of two 15-year-olds who were shot Saturday in Cahokia Heights died at the hospital, three people were charged in connection with the ...

This article was first published by St. Louis Public Radio. As composer James Lee III climbed the many steps of Monks Mound at the Cahokia Mounds Historic Site in Collinsville one day in November 2021 ...

In this February 2020 file photo, what appears to be raw sewage and storm water are being pumped out of a pipe on North 82nd Street in Cahokia Heights. Tampons, toilet paper and other items can be ...