It’s been nearly 61 years since the capstone, completing construction of the iconic Gateway Arch, was laid on my late father’s birthday, October 28, 1965. For those six decades, the Arch has stood as a gleaming monument to westward expansion, while East St. Louis, Illinois, the city just across the Mississippi River, has long been […]
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