East St Louis, a town of Illinois, connected with St Louis, Missouri, by a grand steel bridge over the Mississippi. It is an important railway terminus, and contains Catholic and Baptist colleges, mills and factories, and large stock-yards. Pop. (1890) 15,169.
East St Louis
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 177
Source scan(s): p. 0186