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2. 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 ...

3. Andre Jones and Freddie Tiller - Wikipedia

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   May 4, 1979. Andre Vernell Jones (born July 22, 1956) [1] and Freddie Clyde Tiller Jr. (born August 17, 1957) [2] are American spree killers who killed three people in East St. Louis, Illinois in 1979. Jones is also a serial killer, committing at least two additional murders. Jones and Tiller committed their crimes at the same time and in the ...

4. Girvies Davis and Richard Holman - Wikipedia

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   Pontiac Correctional Center. Girvies L. Davis (January 20, 1958 – May 17, 1995) and Richard "Ricky" Holman (born August 20, 1961) [1] were American serial killers who killed at least four people during robberies in Illinois between 1978 and 1979. Davis, the older of the two, told an investigator that shooting witnesses was "easier" than ...

5. East St. Louis massacre - Wikipedia

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   The East St. Louis massacre was a series of violent attacks on African Americans by white Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, between late May and early July of 1917. These attacks also displaced 6,000 African Americans and led to the destruction of approximately $400,000 ($9.51 million in 2023) worth of property. [ 1 ]

6. List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

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   Antonio Martin is shot to death by police in a St. Louis suburb nearby to Ferguson; 2015 – 2015 Baltimore protests, April 25–28 following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. 2015 – St. Louis, Missouri, August 19. Conflict with police following fatal shooting by St. Louis police officers of a black teenager Mansur Ball-Bey

7. East St. Louis official used library funds on new tires, cash ...

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   The former director of the East St. Louis Public Library was indicted in federal court on five counts of wire fraud and embezzlement for using library funds on personal purchases and cash advances ...

8. List of homicides in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   East St. Louis massacre: East St. Louis: 1917-05/07-Labor and race-related attacks by whites who murdered between 39 and 150 black people, nine whites killed [64] [65] [66] Robert Prager: Collinsville: 1918-04-05: 1: German immigrant lynched during WWI due to anti-German sentiment [67] [68] Chicago race riot of 1919: Chicago South Side: 1919-7 ...

9. Coroner releases identity of 35-year-old man shot to death in ...

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   Authorities have released the identity of a 35-year-old man who was shot to death Saturday in East St. Louis. Jabril Ross of the 1600 block of N. 44th Street in East St. Louis was pronounced dead ...