UI program changes lives in East St. Louis and C-U
By Greg Kline
Sunday December 23, 2007
Darrell Hoemann
UI library science students work on the Katherine Dunham collection on the top floor of the museum named for the East St. Louis icon.
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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