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A day after he learned he was named in a lawsuit filed by a former housing authority commissioner and her police officer husband, the East St. Louis Democratic chairman relayed a much different ...
City Manager Robert Betts has applied to be executive director of the troubled East St. Louis Public Housing Authority in a hiring process that has drawn scrutiny from the U.S. Department of ...
East St. Louis city, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1990 [30] Pop 2000 [31] Pop 2010 [28] Pop ...
James Estel Williams Sr. (September 15, 1921 – February 13, 1983) was an American attorney, teacher, and politician who became the first black mayor of East St. Louis, Illinois. On April 6, 1971, Williams as a political newcomer and independent defeated Virgil Calvert, another black candidate who had been a member of the city council by a ...
The East-West Gateway Council of Governments (EWGCOG or EWG) is the official Council of Governments and Metropolitan planning organization for Greater St. Louis, USA. It was incorporated in 1965. It was incorporated in 1965.
The median household income in East St. Louis is less than $29,000, compared to the state average of around $78,000, according to data from Child Trends, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center ...
George McClellan, assistant chief of the East St. Louis Fire Department, said firefighters could see flames coming through the roof when they arrived at the building shortly after the fire was ...
National City had its beginnings as a business investment by East-Coast venture capitalists in the early 1870s. [2] East St. Louis mayor John Bowman had envisioned a new stockyard operation in East. St. Louis that would rival the famous Union Stock Yards in Chicago and make the stockyards in nearby St. Louis minor by comparison, and he approached a group of wealthy investors about establishing ...