East St. Louis

American  

noun

1. a city in SW Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

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Other Word Forms

• East St Louisan adjective

Example Sentences

She was 18 when she met Ike Turner in East St. Louis when he was the 26-year-old bandleader of Kings of Rhythm.

From Salon • May 24, 2023

While growing up in East St. Louis in the 1970s and early ’80s, Gunn — the trumpeter, composer and bandleader — had always felt that truth already, in a way he links to ancestral memory.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

This week, Joel Anderson tells the story of a shadowy organization in East St. Louis, Illinois, the group’s mysterious leader, and an alleged conspiracy against America during World War II.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2022

Here he is on Berry’s bandmate Johnnie Johnson: “After Johnson’s old lady in Chicago split on him, he dropped down to East St. Louis in 1950.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2022

In the mid-1990s, for example, in the pool halls and roller- skating rinks of East St. Louis, Missouri, there was a man named Darnell “Boss Man” McGee.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell