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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 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 was a rough industrial city, where saloons outnumbered schools and churches. [5] Non-whites were initially a small minority: in 1910, approximately 6,000 African Americans lived in East St. Louis, of a total population of 58,000; by 1917, the black population had increased to 10,000, or one-sixth of the total population of 60,000.
East St. Louis is planning to convert the former 7 story Broadview Hotel, built in 1927, into housing for veterans and people 55 and older. The building, vacant since 2004, was added to the ...
Cahokia Mounds / k ə ˈ h oʊ k i ə / [2] is the site of a Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) [3] directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. [4]
Community activists announced a new East St. Louis Reparations Committee on Saturday during a march for the 106th anniversary of the massacre.
The Lincoln Tigers and Tigerettes won 29 state championships in sports, 14 of them in girls' track and field within a 17-year period; [2] the girls' track and field coach, Nino Fennoy, became the coach at East St. Louis Senior High School after consolidation, as did the boys' basketball coach, Bennie Lewis Sr., whose program dominated the state in the 1980s.
Aveon N. White, 28, of Florence Street, East St. Louis, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:12 p.m., according to St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr The identities of the three wounded ...