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St. Louis is home to the Fox Theatre, located in Grand Center, which presents Broadway shows and concert or speaking events. Other theaters include The Muny, a summer musical theatre located in Forest Park and founded in 1919; the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the city's major regional theatre, founded in 1966; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, an annual summer opera festival co-founded by ...
Ethnic origins in St. Louis. According to the 2010 United States census, St. Louis had 319,294 people living in 142,057 households, of which 67,488 households were families. The population density was 5,158.2 people per square mile (1,991.6 people/km 2). About 24% of the population was 19 or younger, 9% were 20 to 24, 31% were 25 to 44, 25% ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in St. Louis" ... History of the Jews in St. Louis This page was last edited on 10 October 2016, at 14:24 (UTC). ...
St. Louis Bosnian Chamber of Commerce, April 2013. The first wave of Bosnians arrived in the 1990s as refugees of the Bosnian War. [1] According to the refugee organization International Institute of St. Louis, the metropolitan area had about 70,000 people of Bosnian origin circa the late 1990s and early 2000s, the highest recorded number as of date.
The early arrivals were not religiously observant and probably intermarried and in this way may have lost their identity; for it was not until the Jewish New Year of 1836 that the first religious services were held, when ten men rented a little room over Max's Grocery and Restaurant, on the corner of Second and Spruce Streets (now occupied by the St. Louis Arch Grounds).
The other religious institutions are the St. Louis Amitabha Buddhist Learning Center, [4] the St. Louis Tzu-Chi Foundation, [4] [22] the St. Louis International Buddhist Association, [4] the Mid-America Buddhist Association (MABA) in Augusta, [4] [23] and the St. Louis Falun Dafa. [4] The Fo Guang Shan St. Louis Buddhist Center (FGS) [note 11 ...
The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 brought the largest influx of Bosnians to St Louis, which became the most popular United States destination for Bosnian refugees. It is estimated that 40,000 refugees moved to the St. Louis area in the 1990s and early 2000s, bringing the total St. Louis Bosnian population to some 70,000. [ 8 ]
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] 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. [267]