10.28.2009 11:20 am

Former ESL Mayor Officer challenges State Rep. Jackson

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

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Officer

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Controversial ex-East St. Louis Mayor Carl Officer has filed petitions to challenge state Rep. Eddie Lee Jackson in the Feb. 2 Democratic primary, according to the State Board of Elections.

Jackson was appointed to the seat after last year’s death…

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01.20.2009 1:45 pm

East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks: A mile away was close enough

By Doug Moore

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Parks

WASHINGTON — East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks and his wife, JoAnne, never got within a mile of the stage at the inauguration, but he didn’t seem to mind.

“To be surrounded by people from across the United States — whites, Asians, Latinos…

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