Patty Gregory remembers the moment she knew she would be Belleville’s first female mayor. It was following a phone call in 2020 from an elected official after she announced her candidacy for mayor.

The boy, who was shot in the hand, was wounded about 10 p.m. in the 5000 block of West Quincy Street found, police said.

Residents of a small central Illinois city are mourning the loss of three children and a teenager who were killed in a ...