The East St. Louis Flyers dropped a tough overtime battle with national power IMG Academy (Florida), last week, but remain No. 2 in this week's Top 25 Illinois High School Football Rankings.

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.

A third East St. Louis, Illinois, juvenile has been certified to stand trial as an adult for a fatal shooting last year in Jennings.

Cameron Cross, an 18-year-old resident of East St. Louis, has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal ...