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St. Louis and Kansas City Railway: MKT: 1895 1897 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad: RI: 1884 1905 Kansas City Rock Island Railway: St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway: WAB: 1872 1879 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway: St. Louis, Kennett and Southeastern Railroad: SLSF: 1906 1950
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1905 to 1980 saw declines in population and economic basis, particularly after World War II.Although St. Louis made civic improvements in the 1920s and enacted pollution controls in the 1930s, suburban growth accelerated and the city population fell dramatically from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Extensive movement to these towns doubled the population of St. Louis County from 1910 to 1920, while due to restrictions on immigration and outward migration the city grew only 12 percent in the same period. During the 1930s, the city's population declined by a small amount for the first time, but St. Louis County grew by nearly 30 percent.
St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States in 2011, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [35] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [36]
Between St. Louis and Kansas City, the train ran on the Wabash Railroad, then on the Norfolk & Western which leased the Wabash in 1964. This part of the run became a separate train on June 19, 1968, retaining the City of St Louis name until its discontinuance in April 1969; after June 1968 the Union Pacific train was the City of Kansas City ...
St. Louis becomes part of the new U.S. state of Missouri. City Directory begins publication. [1] [10] 1822 City of St. Louis incorporated. [10] Area of city: 385 acres. [12] 1823 – William Carr Lane becomes mayor. 1825 – Lafayette visits town. [13] 1826 – Catholic Diocese of St. Louis established. [14] 1828 – County Courthouse built.
I-44 enters the St. Louis region in Sullivan, Missouri, and runs eastward through Franklin and St. Louis counties, briefly merging with I-55 in the city of St. Louis, and terminating at I-70. The "beltway" serving Greater St. Louis is the combination of Interstate 270 and Interstate 255 , the former a mostly western bypass of St. Louis City.
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1866 to 1904 was marked by rapid growth. Its population increased, making it the country's fourth-largest city after New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. [1]