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The East St. Louis massacre was a series of violent attacks on African Americans by white Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, between late May and early July of 1917. These attacks also displaced 6,000 African Americans and led to the destruction of approximately $400,000 ($9.51 million in 2023) worth of property. [ 1]
v. t. e. The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and European immigrants in Springfield, Illinois, between August 14 and 16, 1908. Two black men had been arrested as suspects in a rape, and attempted rape and murder.
1:23.090 ( Bill Tempero, March 84C, 1986, Can-Am) Gateway Motorsports Park (now known as World Wide Technology Raceway) is a motorsport racing facility in Madison, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, close to the Gateway Arch. It features a 1.250 mi (2.012 km) oval that hosts the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and the NTT ...
July 25, 2022 at 7:00 AM. Reviving East St. Louis from economic turmoil defined the inception of the Broadview Hotel in the early 20th century. Constructed in 1927, the Broadview Hotel was part of ...
September 17, 2014. 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 ...
Born in St. Louis and raised in East St. Louis, Barnhill grew up dancing at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in the latter. She attended the now-defunct A.M. Jackson School and moved to St ...
East St. Louis, Illinois. / 38.62500°N 90.15750°W / 38.62500; -90.15750. East St. Louis is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is directly across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Louis, Missouri, and the Gateway Arch National Park. East St. Louis is in the Metro East region of Southern Illinois.
July 11, 2022 at 7:07 PM. OSHA has begun its investigation into the explosion and fire that injured two workers at a chemical plant in East St. Louis on Sunday, and the Illinois EPA plans to begin ...