You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or that it’s thought to be the first majority-Black town in America to ...

BROOKLYN CITY, Ill. – Community members and law enforcement honored a fallen Brooklyn, Illinois officer Wednesday, Aug. 11. Officer Brian Pierce Jr., 24, had just deployed stop sticks on the McKinley ...

An attorney for the village of Brooklyn has called the historic downstate Illinois town a “rags to riches to rags story.” The town reportedly was founded in the 1820s by a group of families fleeing ...

Brooklyn is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, with a population of 469. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single adult ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BROOKLYN, IL ( KTVI)-An anti-crime “surge” ...

Police and other emergency departments from around Illinois and across the United States are sending their condolences to the Brooklyn Police Department after the death of Patrolman Brian Pierce.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Amelia Flood Jan 3, 2013 Jan 3, 2013 0 Their names were Priscilla and William Paul, and they are the people who may be the Quinn ...

BROOKLYN, Ill. — Police in Brooklyn, Illinois, are asking parents to be on a lookout for a man trying to abduct kids in the Metro East. “To see that my daughter almost got kidnaped. It’s like scary," ...

BROOKLYN, Ill. — A person was injured in a shooting early Friday morning outside a nightclub in Brooklyn, Illinois. According to the Brooklyn Police Department, the victim was shot outside Roxy's, a ...

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