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  2. Peetie Wheatstraw - Wikipedia

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    [26] [25] There is a legend that his death drew little attention, but the accident was fully reported in St. Louis and East St. Louis newspapers, and obituaries appeared in the national music press.

  3. List of people from East St. Louis, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Ann Teer. Jun 18, 1937. Jul 21, 2008. Writer, producer, actress and teacher; founder of the National Black Theater in Harlem (1968) Born in East St. Louis. Ike Turner. Nov 5, 1931. Dec 12, 2007. Musician, bandleader, songwriter, talent scout, and record producer; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  4. Frank Wortman - Wikipedia

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    Frank Wortman. Frank L. "Buster" Wortman (December 4, 1904 – August 3, 1968) was an American St. Louis -area bootlegger, gambler, criminal gang leader, and a former member of the Shelton Brothers Gang during Prohibition. Wortman would eventually succeed the Sheltons, and take over St. Louis's gambling operations in southwest Illinois until ...

  5. St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Wikipedia

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    1930-9600. OCLC number. 1764810. Website. www.stltoday.com. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the Belleville News-Democrat, Alton Telegraph, and Edwardsville Intelligencer.

  6. East St. Louis forum attendees propose community-driven ... - AOL

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    The median household income in East St. Louis is less than $29,000, compared to the state average of around $78,000, according to data from Child Trends, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center ...

  7. Metro-East Journal - Wikipedia

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    The newspaper was founded as the East St. Louis Journal in 1888. The paper's name was changed to the St. Clair and Madison Counties Evening and Sunday Journal in 1958 and the Metro-East Journal in 1964. When Decatur, Illinois -based Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, which had owned the paper since 1932, was sold to Lee Enterprises in 1979, the Journal ...

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