Most folks don’t know America had a city bigger than London back in 1200 CE. Right across from modern St. Louis, Cahokia was ...

Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, and at its peak, the metropolis near modern-day St. Louis was bigger than London. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Of course, that scenario presumes we know that Cahokia had such a single leader, which we don't. We don't even know what this place was called—the name Cahokia is borrowed from a tribe that live ...

Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski visited the Metro East on Tuesday to talk with local leaders about how recent funding cuts will impact projects in southeastern Illinois. The Cahokia Heights sewer ...

Once one of the most powerful tribal leaders of his time, Chief Pontiac was murdered in Cahokia in 1769 and is believed to be buried in the heart of today’s downtown St. Louis. Once one of the ...

Residents in Cahokia Heights continue to deal with flooding and raw sewage because of failing sewer lines. That's why neighbors and local leaders are fighting to get this decades-long problem fixed.

Cahokia High School was built in 1951 with a boiler system from a World War II submarine. The building also lacks a modern heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and has about $40 ...

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. – Cahokia Heights has agreed to $30 million in fixes in an ongoing legal dispute over its sewage system. A consent decree filed between the U.S. Department of Justice, the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." It's a hard-boiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native ...