The city’s largest mound, Monk’s Mound (named by French Trappists in the 1800s), held a large building where Cahokia’s political and spiritual leaders convened. At its base, a town center ...

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.

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 ...

"Correyontae has put in a lot of work this offeseason and he’s one of our leaders," first-year Cahokia coach Darien Donald said. "He shows up to work every day and he’s just making sure he’s ...

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 ...

Can new scientific research help unravel the mystery of Cahokia's disappearance? In its prime, Cahokia was a prosperous city with a population similar to London’s. But this sprawling Native ...