[Rockpile]

East St Louis is the most African-American city and has the highest crime rate in the United States.

Portions of Escape From New York were filmed there in the 70s. They wouldn’t dare try that now.

[dfwgator]

East St. Louis in National Lampoon’s Vacation (Language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwBoa-NbNL8

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I read an article tonight about the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in the country. East St. Louis had several of them, and #1 is downtown ESL, right where I used to work.