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East St. Louis, Illinois

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101 relations: All-America City Award, Alton, Illinois, American Bottom, American Civil War, Brownfield land, Cahokia, Cahokia, Illinois, Casino, Census, Central Time Zone, Cinefantastique, Collinsville, Illinois, Community gardening, Concurrency (road), Contemporary Christian music, Council–manager government, Delta Sigma Theta, Earthworks (archaeology), East Riverfront station, East St. Louis Lincoln High School, East St. Louis School District 189, East St. Louis Senior High School, Emerson Park station (MetroLink), Escape from New York, Federal Information Processing Standards, Feedlot, Gateway Arch, German Americans, Great Migration (African American), Harlem, Heritage tourism, Homicide Studies, Ike & Tina Turner, Illinois Department of Corrections, Inner city, Interstate 255, Interstate 55 in Illinois, Interstate 64 in Illinois, Interstate 70 in Illinois, Ion Television, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center station, KFTK (AM), Knights of Labor, Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House, List of municipalities in Illinois, Louisiana Purchase, Maize, Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park, Meat packing industry, Median income, ..., Metro East, Metro-East Journal, MetroLink (St. Louis), Miles Davis, Mississippi River, Mississippian culture, Model Cities Program, Mound, Murder, MyNetworkTV, NAACP, National Guard of the United States, NeighborhoodScout, Panic of 1873, PBS, Per capita income, Poplar Street Bridge, Population density, Poverty threshold, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Rust Belt, Silent Parade, Southern Illinois, Soybean, St. Clair County, Illinois, St. Louis, St. Louis Downtown Airport, Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge, Starlog, The New York Times, U.S. Route 40, U.S. Route 50 in Illinois, U.S. Route 66 in Illinois, Uniform Crime Reports, United States Census Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, UPN, Urban prairie, Violent crime, Virginia Mayo, W. E. B. Du Bois, WBGL, Workingmen's Party of the United States, World Heritage site, World War I, WRBU, WXOS, 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, 1950 United States Census, 2010 United States Census, 5th & Missouri station. Expand index (51 more) »

All-America City Award

The All-America City Award, given by the National Civic League, is the oldest community recognition program in the nation.

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Alton, Illinois

Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, Missouri.

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American Bottom

The American Bottom is the flood plain of the Mississippi River in the Metro-East region of Southern Illinois, extending from Alton, Illinois, south to the Kaskaskia River.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Brownfield land

Brownfield land is a term used in urban planning to describe any previously developed land that is not currently in use, whether contaminated or not or, in North America, more specifically to describe land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste.

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Cahokia

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (circa 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri.

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Cahokia, Illinois

Cahokia is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States which is in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.

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Casino

A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Cinefantastique

Cinefantastique was a horror, fantasy, and science fiction film magazine.

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Collinsville, Illinois

Collinsville is a city located mainly in Madison County, and partially in St. Clair County, both in Illinois.

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Community gardening

A community garden is a single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.

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Concurrency (road)

A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers.

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Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music (or CCM—and occasionally "inspirational music") is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of local government in the United States and Ireland, the other being the mayor–council government form.

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Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ; sometimes abbreviated Deltas or DST) is a Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that target the African American community.

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Earthworks (archaeology)

In archaeology, earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles of artificially placed or sculpted rocks and soil.

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East Riverfront station

East Riverfront is a St. Louis MetroLink station.

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East St. Louis Lincoln High School

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East St. Louis School District 189

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East St. Louis Senior High School

East Saint Louis Senior High School is the only high school located in East Saint Louis, Illinois.

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Emerson Park station (MetroLink)

Emerson Park is a St. Louis MetroLink station.

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Escape from New York

Escape from New York is a 1981 American post-apocalyptic science-fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Feedlot

A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.

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Gateway Arch

The Gateway Arch is a monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Great Migration (African American)

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Heritage tourism

Cultural heritage tourism (or just heritage tourism or diaspora tourism) is a branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring.

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Homicide Studies

Homicide Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of homicide.

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Ike & Tina Turner

Ike & Tina Turner were an American musical duo composed of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner.

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Illinois Department of Corrections

The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system.

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Inner city

The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis.

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Interstate 255

Interstate 255 (I-255) is a bypass route of Interstate 55 near St. Louis, Missouri and with Interstate 270, it forms a loop around the city.

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Interstate 55 in Illinois

Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Illinois that connects the St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago metropolitan areas.

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Interstate 64 in Illinois

Interstate 64 (I-64) in the U.S. state of Illinois is a major east–west Interstate highway that runs from the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area east to the Indiana state line near Grayville, Illinois.

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Interstate 70 in Illinois

Interstate 70 (I-70) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that travels from Cove Fort, Utah to Baltimore, Maryland.

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Ion Television

Ion Television is an American broadcast, cable, and satellite television network that is owned by Ion Media.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center station

Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center is a St. Louis MetroLink station in East St. Louis, Illinois.

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KFTK (AM)

KFTK (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format.

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Knights of Labor

Knights of Labor (K of L), officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.

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Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood house is a 103-year-old comprehensive social services organization based in East St. Louis.

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List of municipalities in Illinois

Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park

Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park is a park on the east side of the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois, directly across from the Gateway Arch and the city of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Meat packing industry

The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

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Median income

Median income is the amount that divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount.

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Metro East

Metro East is a region in Illinois that comprises the eastern suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, United States (US).

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Metro-East Journal

The Metro-East Journal was a newspaper published in East St. Louis, Illinois, from 1888 to 1979.

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MetroLink (St. Louis)

MetroLink is the light rail transit system in the Greater St. Louis area of Missouri and the Metro East area of Illinois.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization archeologists date from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally.

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Model Cities Program

The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty.

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Mound

A mound is a heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated as MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV), is an American television network/syndication service that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of 20th Television.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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National Guard of the United States

The National Guard of the United States, part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, is a reserve military force, composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations.

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NeighborhoodScout

NeighborhoodScout is a website and online database of U.S. neighborhood analytics created in 2002 by geographer and demographics specialist Andrew Schiller, Ph.D. of Location Inc.

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Panic of 1873

The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879, and even longer in some countries (France and Britain).

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Poplar Street Bridge

The Congressman William L. Clay Sr.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Rust Belt

The Rust Belt is a region of the United States, made up mostly of places in the Midwest and Great Lakes, though the term may be used to include any location where industry declined starting around 1980.

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Silent Parade

The Negro Silent Protest Parade was a silent march of about 10,000 African Americans along Fifth Avenue starting at 57th Street in New York City on July 28, 1917.

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Southern Illinois

Southern Illinois (also known as "Little Egypt" or "Egypt") is the southern third of the state of Illinois.

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Soybean

The soybean (Glycine max), or soya bean, is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

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St. Clair County, Illinois

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St. Louis

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St. Louis Downtown Airport

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Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge

The Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge (known as the New Mississippi River Bridge until its formal naming in 2013 and informally known as the "Stan Span") is a bridge across the Mississippi River between St. Clair County, Illinois, and the city of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Starlog

Starlog was a monthly science fiction magazine that was created in 1976 and focused primarily on Star Trek at its inception.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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U.S. Route 40

U.S. Route 40 (US 40), also known as the Main Street of America, is an east–west United States Highway.

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U.S. Route 50 in Illinois

In the U.S. state of Illinois, U.S. Route 50 is an east–west highway across the southern portion of the state.

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U.S. Route 66 in Illinois

U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois.

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Uniform Crime Reports

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) compiles official data on crime in the United States, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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UPN

The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995.

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Urban prairie

Urban prairie is a term to describe vacant urban land that has reverted to green space.

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Violent crime

A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use force upon a victim.

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Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones; November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American actress and dancer.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W.

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WBGL

WBGL is a Christian radio station licensed to Champaign, Illinois and owned by the Illinois Bible Institute, the educational branch of the Illinois District Council of the Assemblies of God.

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Workingmen's Party of the United States

The Workingmen's Party of the United States (WPUS), established in 1876, was one of the first Marxist-influenced political parties in the United States.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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WRBU

WRBU, virtual channel 46 (UHF digital channel 47), is a Ion Television owned-and-operated television station serving St. Louis, Missouri, United States that is licensed to East St. Louis, Illinois.

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WXOS

WXOS (101.1 FM) is a commercial radio station located in Creve Coeur, Missouri, broadcasting to the Greater St. Louis area.

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1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado

The 1896 St.

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1950 United States Census

The Seventeenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 150,697,361, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 131,669,275 persons enumerated during the 1940 Census.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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5th & Missouri station

5th & Missouri is a St. Louis MetroLink station located in East St. Louis, Illinois, near the city's historic downtown.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_St._Louis,_Illinois

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