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Old Posted Sep 20, 2021, 4:17 PM
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awesome tour of some well off the beaten track places.

i especially liked the cahokia stuff. it's perhaps the nation's least known/least celebrated major cultural landmark.



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Originally Posted by xzmattzx View Post
East St. Louis has some good buildings as well, and some much taller than I would've expected. I knew it was bombed out, but figured it was all lowrise commercial buildings and houses, more like Gary.
gary has a smattering of some older taller commercial buildings left as well.

it's really not all that much different than what's still left in downtown ESL.


downtown gary: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6069.../data=!3m1!1e3

downtown ESL: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6270.../data=!3m1!1e3
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