East St' Louis, IL The Land of Katherine Dunham

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East St. Louis, ILThe Land of Katherine Dunham
East St. Louis is situated in a fertile valley
gouged out by the Mississippi River in the
geologic past and named the American Bottoms by
pioneers. Sprawling fanlike from the river, the
city is almost superimposed on the vast village
site of a prehistoric people whose mounds dot the
plain four miles northeast while a few miles to
the southwest, almost obliterated by industrial
expansion, are vestiges of old Cahokia, which was
settled by French missionaries in 1695.
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