O’Fallon City Hall will lock its doors to the public for an hour Wednesday afternoon so newly-elected Mayor Bill Hennessy can talk privately with employees about the future of the city.

City Hall will shut down from 3 to 4 p.m.…

Interim Chief Bill Seibert

O’Fallon Interim Police Chief Bill Seibert is pushing for a change in the way the department’s 109 police officers work.

The department currently requires officers work 10-hour shifts, which Seibert says is rare for police departments in the…

Let’s start an unscientific poll here. Just for fun.

Now that politics seem to be heating up in O’Fallon as we approach the April election, I ask you, Chas Beat readers, who is most likely to claim the mayor’s chair?

If the…

Jim Frain, 60, a candidate for mayor of O’Fallon in the April election, sent a news release to the Post-Dispatch today criticizing what he said was the City Council’s apparent efforts to oust City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr.

He called the City…

Vicki Schneider’s comeback campaign for mayor of O’Fallon is already finished.

The former Republican state representative dropped out of the mayoral race Saturday, according to City Clerk Pam Clement. Schneider’s candidacy lasted just nine days. She filed to run Jan. 16.

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Vicki Schneider, who narrowly lost her Missouri House seat in the November election, is wasting no time plotting a political comeback.  Schneider is now running for mayor of O’Fallon.

Schneider, who filed Friday, is the latest of four candidates to register for the…