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Article: EAST ST. LOUIS -- PORTRAIT OF POVERTY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 31, 1988
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - It sits on the east bank of the
Mississippi, just one placid river away from the art galleries,
tony restaurants and highbrow bookstores that stud the revitalized
riverfront of St. Louis, Mo.
Considering, however, the desperate poverty, the crime, the
high unemployment rate and the hopelessness here, it could just as
well be an ocean away.
East St. Louis, an almost entirely black city of about 55,000,
seems a world removed from the Saturday afternoon concerns of the
tourists, conventioneers and surburban St. Louis high school kids
who stroll the cobblestone streets of Laclede's Landing, across the
river. For here, each city block is marred by a string of ...