UI program changes lives in East St. Louis and C-U

Twenty years after the University of Illinois began the effort that became the East St. Louis Action Research Project, the Mississippi River city's population has fallen by 10,000.

Of those left, almost all black, a third live in poverty. The unemployment rate is twice the state average. A riverfront casino hasn't provided the expected economic boost. The city and its environs do their most prominent business in strip joints.

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