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Article: East St. Louis' toughest hurdle might be others' perceptions
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2002
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East St. Louis' toughest hurdle might be others' perceptions
City is striving, but pervasive fears might keep developers away
By STEPHANIE SIMON Los Angeles Times
Sunday, March 17, 2002
East St. Louis, Ill. -- This is a boarded-up and beaten-down city,
a city of abandoned buildings, of lots heaped with rubble, of windows
secured with iron grates.
But it is, as well, a city with ambition.
So it stung when a lawmaker from across the Mississippi River, in
Missouri, recently slammed East St. Louis as too scary to visit
unarmed.
Dismissing talk that the Cardinals baseball team might build a new
stadium in East St. Louis, Missouri state Rep. Jim Murphy told a TV
interviewer that fans would never ...