Researchers reveal how prehistoric Native Americans of Cahokia made copper artifacts.

By George Pawlaczyk, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Aug. 1--LEBANON -- A home developer who destroyed part of a 1,000-year-old buried Mississippian village will pay $144,000 to help protect hundreds of other prehistoric Illinois sites, the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency announced Thursday.

By Wally Spiers, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Jan. 29--Residents come to celebrate opening When the Cahokia Area YMCA officially opened its doors at 5 a.m. Monday, the first one there to work out was Cahokia Mayor Frank Bergman.

By JIM SUHR MADISON, Ill. - An independent pollution-control agency has rejected environmentalists' claims that a planned landfill could desecrate possible burial grounds near the ruins of a once-thriving prehistoric city.

By Jake Wagman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jun. 13--A year ago this month, the Praxair Inc. plant in St. Louis was the site of a raging explosion that propelled canisters of gas into the air, touching off a round of investigations and a plea from residents to leave their neighborhood for good.