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Originally Posted by edale
I haven't spent a ton of time in St. Louis, but in the visits I've made to the area, it did feel like the real locus of control is decidedly west of the downtown core. There is next to nothing just across the river in Illinois, which is not at all what I was expecting from a city situated right on a state boundary. Downtown feels not all that important and was pretty sleepy, dated, and honestly somewhat unimpressive.
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That’s because most of DTStL has been razed. East StL has also been on a downward spiral for 70+ years. The suburbs on the IL side of the Mississippi are actually relatively old towns (some settled in late 1700s) and are mostly middle income communities. Illinois was actually settled from the south northward rather than the opposite, which seems counterintuitive.
http://www.citytoriver.org/history/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/399483429421571625/
https://nextstl.com/2013/05/what-the...bout-st-louis/