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, ...

Amy Clark, who opposes development of a solar farm at Mount Hope Cemetery in Belleville, speaks at a public meeting on Thursday at the Southwestern Illinois Justice and Workplace Development Campus.

More than 450 people have signed a petition asking Belleville officials to halt their plans to clear-cut woods behind Mount Hope Cemetery to make way for a community solar farm. Opponents are hoping ...

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, ...