Time to rename the City of East St. Louis

[Polishprince]

The town was named after a notorious anti-Semite, as well as an Islamophobe (which should fire up libs)

Yet his name still graces the tremendous City of Champions.

I'm not alone on this, but I am one of the first to suggest naming the tremendous city after a great man that was born not far away from the shores of the Mississippi River.

How about East Saint Limbaugh as a new name ?

In St. Louis, statue of anti-Semitic namesake - The Jewish Star

On top of a hill in front of an art museum in the biggest park in St. Louis stands a statue of an anti-Semite. It’s a monument to the city’s namesake, the medieval French king Louis IX, …

www.thejewishstar.com

 

[Lockback]

The town was named after a notorious anti-Semite, as well as an Islamophobe (which should fire up libs)

Yet his name still graces the tremendous City of Champions.

I'm not alone on this, but I am one of the first to suggest naming the tremendous city after a great man that was born not far away from the shores of the Mississippi River.

How about East Saint Limbaugh as a new name ?

In St. Louis, statue of anti-Semitic namesake - The Jewish Star

On top of a hill in front of an art museum in the biggest park in St. Louis stands a statue of an anti-Semite. It’s a monument to the city’s namesake, the medieval French king Louis IX, …

www.thejewishstar.com

Oh, I'm IN on that.

 

[lg325]

Did they ever fix that place up? I went through their on a Trail Ways bus in 1981 and it looked like bombed out European cities at the end of WW2. Just skeletons of buildings some just one tall wall standing.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Hasn't East St Louis, at times been #1 in murder-rate?

 

[Polishprince]

Hasn't East St Louis, at times been #1 in murder-rate?

I don't know about that, but I'll concede that it has had a high homicide rate in the past, but it also has its points of positivity including a very reasonably priced housing market.

This house is 22k in ESL, but in a hell hole like San Fran it would be plenty more. Further, East St. Louis is well known for ample free parking, unlike places like NYC or Washington DC

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1919-Ohio-Ave_East-Saint-Louis_IL_62205_M76091-31676

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Here's the current murder rate for cities worldwide.

Remove South Africa, and it's all places south of our border. Six of the top ten are in the pit, known as Mexico. Things must be getting better though, a few years back, Mexico had nine of the top ten.

Colima	Mexico
Durán	Ecuador
Ciudad Obregón	Mexico
Zacatecas	Mexico
Nelson Mandela Bay	South Africa
Cajeme	Mexico
Tijuana	Mexico
Guayaquil	Ecuador
Uruapan	Mexico
Machala	Ecuador
Durban	South Africa
Portoviejo	Ecuador
Feira de Santana	Brazil
Kingston	Jamaica
Celaya	Mexico
Macapá	Brazil
Port-au-Prince	Haiti
Cape Town	South Africa
uMgungundlovu	South Africa
Ciudad Juárez	Mexico
Acapulco	Mexico
Buffalo City	South Africa
Caucaia	Brazil
Irapuato	Mexico

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[HikerGuy83]

Hasn't East St Louis, at times been #1 in murder-rate?

Can't answer that.

But I can tell you that people I know from around there have told me it is a real hole.