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While "St. Louis, with its French ancestry, has been noted as a fur capital, more money passed through St. Louis as a result of the lead business in Missouri than did because of the fur business", wrote Doe Run Company CEO Jeffry Zelm. [16] The oldest St. Louis-based lead family is Desloge. [17]
With the passage of Prohibition in 1920, control of St. Louis's illegal bootlegging operations became a major power struggle between the seven different ethnic gangs: the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, the Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Shelton Gang and the Cuckoos all fighting to control illegal rackets in the St. Louis area. [1]
In 1988, Edwards founded the non-profit St. Louis Walk of Fame to honor great St. Louisans and their contributions to American culture. More than 150 inductees are described in brass stars and informative bronze plaques set into the Loop's sidewalks. [9] In 2013, he published an updated St. Louis Walk of Fame book. [10]
Several St. Louis property owners are reeling after being slapped with massive bills from the city for repairs they never authorized. The bills, tied to a city program called Stable Communities ...
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German immigrant Anton Griesedieck brought his family brewing tradition (dating from 1766 in Stromberg, Germany) to St. Louis in about 1866.He owned a series of breweries, employing his four sons, including Henry Jr. and Joseph "Papa Joe", and nephew Henry L. Griesedieck, who would later found Griesedieck Western Brewery Co. [1] The four sons established the National Brewery Co. in 1891, which ...
John Joseph Vitale (May 17, 1909 – June 5, 1982) was a Sicilian-American boss and under-boss [1] of the St. Louis crime family. During his lifetime, Vitale was the boss of the St. Louis crime family .
A man who once ran more than 100 nursing homes from an office over a New Jersey pizzeria has pleaded guilty in connection with what federal prosecutors called a $38 million payroll tax fraud scheme.