For decades, residents in at least 54 homes in a 4.29 square-mile area of the former city of Centreville have struggled with flash flooding and raw sewage in yards and homes that does not drain away.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this 2020 file photo, Cahokia Heights resident Walter Byrd stands in his yard next to raw sewage and his attempt to keep the ...

In this 2023 file photo, water flows from a pipe on North 82nd Street in Cahokia Heights. Residents have reported seeing raw sewage, toilet paper, tampons and other items in the water and on the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." It's a hard-boiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native ...

Government officials say it will take millions of dollars and years of work to fix the infrastructure and drainage issues in Cahokia Heights that cause sewage to flood into homes. Cahokia Heights is ...

Francis Spufford's novel imagines a 1920s city in which Native Americans still hold territory and political power, and the "color line" doesn't exist — until a grisly murder disrupts everything. This ...