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St. Louis City Hall was designed by architects Eckel & Mann, the winners of a national competition. [1] Construction began in 1891 and completed in 1898. Its profile and stylistic characteristics evoke the French Renaissance Hôtel de Ville, Paris , with an elaborate interior decorated with marble and gold trim.
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 ...
Community activists announced a new East St. Louis Reparations Committee on Saturday during a march for the 106th anniversary of the massacre.
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In 2016, St. Louis was the most dangerous city in the United States with populations of 100,000 or more, ranking 1st in violent crime and 2nd in property crime. It was also ranked 6th of the most dangerous of all establishments in the United States, and East St. Louis, a suburb of the city itself, was ranked 1st.
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 ...
St. Louis: 1894: Commerce Trust Building: 258 ft (79 m) Kansas City: 1907: Railway Exchange Building: 277 ft (84 m) St. Louis: 1914: Federal Reserve Bank Building: 298 ft (91 m) Kansas City: 1921: Southwestern Bell Building: 397 ft (121 m) St. Louis: 1926: Kansas City Power and Light Building: 476 ft (145 m) Kansas City: 1931: One US Bank Plaza