Chris Rhodes is a photographer and reporter for RiverBender and EdGlenToday.com. He is a graduate of Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL with a degree in Criminal Justice. He also runs the Madison County Scanner Page.
Chris loves camping,fishing, and photography. Chris is an Eagle Scout and lives in East Alton.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced that a new St. Louis Cardinals permanent Illinois license plate will be coming soon and available for purchase after Labor Day. The license plate, which features the Cardinals iconic ‘Birds on Bat’ logo, was unveiled by White at Busch Stadium...
GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College, along with Campus Security, ESDA, Alton Memorial Ambulance, Alton Volunteer Emergency Corp, and Godfrey Fire Department, conducted a full-scale tornado disaster exercise on its main campus Friday, Aug. 2. During the drill, safety personnel responded...
EDWARDSVILLE – Edwardsville players Erik Weiler and Seth Lipe won their opening round matches as play got underway in the 2019 Pro Wildcard Challenge presented by TheBANK Of Edwardsville/Busey Bank Thursday morning at the Edwardsville Tennis Center. Weiler won his opening match over Nico...
EDWARDSVILLE - This summer, there has been an abundance of construction work within the St. Boniface Parish in Edwardsville. One of the two main projects of the summer was to make the 1912 St. Boniface School building ADA-compliant accessible. On Thursday, a crane lifted a prefabricated three-story...
WOOD RIVER - The historic building that had portions collapse on July 22 at 114 Whitelaw in Wood River appears headed for demolition after some additional large cracks were found Thursday. Engineers were shoring up the building Thursday when additional cracks were discovered. Wood River Fire Chief...
With the 2019-2020 school year, students in Granite City will be able to find a good book to read while traveling between home and school on select school buses. This pilot program is a partnership between Granite City Community Unit School District #9, North America Central School Bus, and Six Mile...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today paid tribute to Specialist Michael Isaiah Nance, of Chicago, Illinois, who was killed on July 29 in Afghanistan. In a speech on the Senate floor, Durbin expressed his condolences to Nance’s family and friends. “The motto of the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, along with Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Doug Jones (D-AL), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), introduced bipartisan legislation to address critical rural health workforce shortages. The...
ALTON - A body was discovered in a fire at 412 Monument Street in Alton on Wednesday morning. The Alton Fire Department received a call at 5:02 a.m. for the Monument Street blaze. Alton Fire Department issued a box alarm and the East Alton Fire Department was called to the scene to assist. “Our...
LITCHFIELD – Illinois State Police (ISP) District 18 Commander, Mark Gillock, announces the ISP will conduct Nighttime Enforcement (NITE) patrols in Macoupin and Montgomery County during August. NITE patrols allow the ISP to focus on preventing, detecting, and taking enforcement action in response...
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