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.

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Updated Post: Stormwater and Sewer Informational Meeting The City of East St. Louis invites all residents and businesses to a Public Meeting discussing the Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) and Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO). Read on...

The City of East St. Louis, Illinois is located immediately east and across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Louis. In 1958, East St. Louis was named an “All American City” by the National Civic League, having developed an industrial core with railroad-related industries and warehouses, and achieving a population of over 82,000 ...

St. Louis (/ s eɪ n t ˈ l uː ɪ s, s ən t-/ saynt LOO-iss, sənt-) [11] is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri.It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, [8] while its metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million.It is the largest ...

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East St. Louis of 1937 is a monument to builders who, despite veritable hell and high water, erected a solid middle-western city where once were dank marshes. The history of East St. Louis might well have been written in terms of the pirogue, …

East St. Louis, commonly abbreviated as "ESL", is a city in Southern Illinois directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. It is a sprawling city with about 18,000 people, down from about 82,000 in the 1950s.

East St. Louis History Timeline. 1808 Illinois City established on the present-day National Stockyards Area. 1817 Illinois City changed to Illinoistown by the firm McKnight and Brady. 1821 Illinoistown becomes major supplier of coal, food and raw materials for city of St. Louis