New leaders take office, tighten budget as life begins in southwest IL’s newest town – Belleville News Democrat

The formation of the new town is the result of a merger of Alorton, Centreville and Cahokia, which voters approved last November. Curtis McCall Sr, the former supervisor of Centreville Township, was a proponent of the merger. “It’s a bittersweet day, as my son said, the previous mayor,” McCall Sr. said after being sworn in. “There is roughly over 150 either appointed or elected employees that lost their job starting today."