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The Downtown East St. Louis Historic District is a historic commercial district in downtown East St. Louis, Illinois. The district includes 35 buildings, 25 of which are contributing buildings, along Collinsville Avenue, Missouri Avenue, and St. Louis Avenue; all but one of the buildings was historically used for commercial purposes. While ...
East St. Louis, like all of Southern Illinois, is classified as humid subtropical by the Köppen classification, having hot, humid summers and cool winters. On July 14, 1954, the temperature in East St. Louis allegedly reached 117 °F (47 °C), the highest temperature ever recorded in America east of the Mississippi River. It is not considered ...
The Broadview Hotel is a historic hotel building located at 415 E. Broadway in East St. Louis, Illinois. The Classical Revival hotel was constructed in 1927. From its opening until the 1950s, the hotel was one of the finest in East St. Louis. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The Majestic Theatre is a historic movie theater located at 240–246 Collinsville Ave. in East St. Louis, Illinois. Built in 1928, the theater replaced a 1907 theater which had burned down. The Spanish Gothic theater was designed by the Boller Brothers, who were nationally prominent theater architects. Multicolored tiles decorate the building ...
Washington Park is a part of the East St. Louis School District. Avant Elementary School is located in Washington Park. [14] [15] Manners Elementary School and Woodrow Wilson Elementary School were formerly located in Washington Park. [15] [16] Wilson opened in 1927. [17]
SIUE's East St. Louis Center, located in East St. Louis, Illinois, 22 miles (35 km) from the main campus, traces its beginnings when Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees in response to local people's demands for more education in the Metro East established residence centers in East St. Louis in 1957. The current location is the center ...
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In 1954, most of Metro East of St. Louis switched from area code 217 to 618. Projections in 2021 by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, indicated central office code exhaustion by 2025. [3] Periodic proposals were made for code relief, and area code 730 was designated for an overlay complex. Implementation was completed with an in ...