In setting up funding for Belleville’s next annual budget, city leaders decided to take money set aside for a proposed downtown parking garage and use it to help support pensions for police officers ...

The city is still waiting to hear whether the Illinois Department of Commerce ... that a developer wants to redevelop a block of downtown Belleville into commercial space and about 25 condominiums ...

DOWNTOWN HALLOWEEN TRICK-OR ... LABOR DAY PICNIC — Southwestern Illinois Central Labor Council requested city services for the Belleville Labor Day Picnic from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept.

Joshua Carter Belleville News-Democrat In his pitch to secure tax increment financing to help finance the renovation of Big Daddy’s in downtown ... graduate of Southern Illinois University ...

Belleville city leaders want to build a parking garage behind the 100 block of East Main Street, where the Ben’s store was formerly located.

Big Daddy’s 618 in downtown Belleville is set to close at the end of March 2025, its owner, Scott Schmelzel, announced in May. Monday night, Schmelzel entered into a development agreement with ...