This drone image shows a borrow pit that is partially on Ray LaFore Truck Service property and partially on Mount Carmel Cemetery land that the company leases from the Catholic Diocese of Belleville.

SPRINGFIELD — A month after de facto local organized crime boss Albert Calvanese was in a devastating car crash, rival gangsters swept into the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society Club this week, ...

For at least two decades, the Catholic Diocese of Belleville has been leasing a small section of Mount Carmel Cemetery land to a trucking company that's digging a borrow pit and hauling out fill dirt, ...