The New Student's Reference Work/East St. Louis, Ill.

East St. Louis, Ill., a city of St. Clair County, on the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Mo. The cities are connected by a steel-bridge across the river. East St. Louis is a great railroad-center, and the emporium of a considerable trade. Here are a number of the largest stock-yards in the United States; it also has extensive car and machine-shops, foundries, rolling-mills, breweries, glass-factories, sugar-mills, steel-plants, etc. There are many good schools and churches, a public library, an academy and the Howe (Baptist) Literary Institute. In the past decade the population has doubled, being 58,547.