"Within Our Gates" is the oldest surviving film by an African American filmmaker — director Oscar Micheaux was born in Metropolis, IL, in 1884. This film will be showing at ...

PFS, Maiden Alley Cinema's montly movie club is celebrating Black History Month with a presentation of Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates," the oldest surviving feature directed by a Black American.

Metropolis, Illinois in Massac County of Southern Illinois is being hit by a brutal winter storm dumping a massive amount of ...

With the entry of dangerous and potentially deadly winter weather conditions into the area, Massac County and the City of ...

Uranium Energy Corp's Irigaray Central Processing Plant has produced its first dried and drummed uranium concentrates since ...

Uranium Energy (UEC) announced an operational milestone with the successful processing, drying and drumming of uranium concentrates at the ...

Oscar Micheaux, Metropolis native and the country’s first major African American film maker, is returning to the silver ...

Two Joffrey Ballet world premieres, “The Terminator” with live accompaniment by the Chicago Philharmonic, and Polar Adventure ...

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At the Illinois Gaming Board’s first meeting of the year, it reported that the State and local governments earned more than $1.7 billion in tax revenue from Illinois’ ...

The state and local governments in Illinois earned more than $1.7 billion in tax revenue from gambling, new data shows. The Illinois Gaming Board held its first meeting of 2025 this week. Among other ...