Cahokia Heights

quincunx · PostAug 21, 2020#12020-08-21T00:15+00:00

Suburban Lifestyle Dream turned nightmare.

February 23
Stltoday - A plea for help: Centreville’s sewage and drainage problems pose health, safety risks

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/ill ... ea2ee.html

July 30
Stltoday - Sewage and flooding woes in Centreville ‘urgent’ as senators call on EPA to help

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/ill ... c.amp.html

Stltoday - Help us now, Centreville residents tell Pritzker, state environmental regulators

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/ill ... 3.amp.html

BellaVilla · PostNov 04, 2020#22020-11-04T20:16+00:00

Voters approved the merger of Cahokia, Alorton and Centreville into a new town called Cahokia Heights. This is apparently the second step in their own better together initiative.

https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-gover ... 99832.html

framer · PostNov 04, 2020#32020-11-04T20:21+00:00

Excellent! Every little bit helps.

quincunx · PostNov 04, 2020#42020-11-04T20:44+00:00

Didn't realize this was on the ballot. Way to go. Hope some munis on the west side of the river follow suit.

wabash · PostNov 04, 2020#52020-11-04T21:23+00:00

I guess Sauget wasn't interested.

chriss752 · PostNov 04, 2020#62020-11-04T22:13+00:00

wabash wrote: ↑
Nov 04, 2020
I guess Sauget wasn't interested.

166 people live there. I initially thought "does anyone even live there?".

PeterXCV · PostNov 05, 2020#72020-11-05T00:09+00:00

Sauget is basically a tax haven, the industries that set up there wanted to avoid paying taxes to East St. Louis so they incorporated it and built a small subdivision to avoid getting annexed,

symphonicpoet · PostNov 05, 2020#82020-11-05T03:43+00:00

^I want to say it was originally called "Monsanto Illinois." At least per my dad, a twenty-five year Monsanto vet from back in the old days. All that said . . . Might it be that the, ahem, bars in "Monsanto" don't want to face possible Cahokia Heights regulations on operating hours of services offered?

All that said, good on Alorton, Cahokia, and Centerville. (Though I wish they'd just gone with Cahokia. Distinctive, historic, and easy. And never too late. Cahokia's Centerville neighborhood. Or Dupo neighborhood. Or Belleville neighborhood.) *ducks*

Laife Fulk · PostNov 05, 2020#92020-11-05T05:09+00:00

Still a great first step and wouldn't surprise me if more consolidation doesn't occur in the coming years. Especially if, just hypothetically here, East St. Louis were to disincorporate then Cahokia Heights could annex a lot of it.

symphonicpoet · PostNov 05, 2020#102020-11-05T06:20+00:00

^Sorry. I don't want my silly sense of humor to get in the way. I really do think this is an entirely positive development.

Black02AltimaSE · PostNov 05, 2020#112020-11-05T13:34+00:00

SP, there's a PT's in Centerville so apparently they will be "bar" friendly.

The map of Centerville's city limits looks like something out of a fever dream. It's specifically designed to include PT's.

symphonicpoet · PostNov 06, 2020#122020-11-06T02:39+00:00

I am unfamiliar with PT's, so maybe it's a quite different sort of "bar" than I would guess. Maybe more consistent with Brooklyn or Sauget. (Our two cameo appearances in American Gods were Lambert in TWA days . . . and Brooklyn back when the "bars" there were more numerous and less, oh, burned out shells. Both amused me. I suppose I ought to watch the series to see if either made it onto . . . a card, I suppose. Into digits.)

framer · PostNov 06, 2020#132020-11-06T03:49+00:00

PT's is a nudie bar.

symphonicpoet · PostNov 06, 2020#142020-11-06T04:48+00:00

^I kind of figured that's why we were all using scare quotes.

Think of them as pasties for big fake jokes.

framer · PostNov 06, 2020#152020-11-06T07:23+00:00

Scare quotes = air quotes = pasties = fake jokes = now I get it.

quincunx · PostApr 09, 2021#162021-04-09T20:43+00:00

Stltoday - Despite national spotlight, Centreville residents are still living with sewage and floodwater

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... ce4c6.html

PostJul 21, 2021#172021-07-21T16:58+00:00

St. Louis Public Radio - New Lawsuit Filed Over Chronic Flooding, Sewage Issues In Former Centreville Area

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/governm ... ville-area

RockChalkSTL · PostJul 21, 2021#182021-07-21T17:14+00:00

I wish we lived in a reality in which Metro East was not as troubled and seemingly hopeless as it is right now.

BellaVilla · PostJul 21, 2021#192021-07-21T18:10+00:00

I'd go ahead and substitute "Illinois" for "Metro East." Basically every community in the state struggling with the exception of Champaign and specific high income areas of the Chicagoland

Laife Fulk · PostJul 21, 2021#202021-07-21T19:33+00:00

That's overexaggerating quite a bit. Bloomington/Normal, Springfield, Peoria and even smaller communities like Monticello, Sullivan, Lincoln, Macomb, etc aren't struggling like Cahokia Heights is. Let's not paint the entire state with a broad brush, just because the poorest Metro East communities are struggling.

RockChalkSTL · PostJul 21, 2021#212021-07-21T19:40+00:00

Metro East has some nice communities: Edwardsville, O'Fallon, Collinsville, for instance.

I'm pretty much just talking about everything inside of I-255 from I-55 down to Dupo.

Most of that area seems utterly hopeless right now. I wish it weren't.

BellaVilla · PostJul 21, 2021#222021-07-21T20:24+00:00

Laife Fulk wrote: ↑
Jul 21, 2021
That's overexaggerating quite a bit. Bloomington/Normal, Springfield, Peoria and even smaller communities like Monticello, Sullivan, Lincoln, Macomb, etc aren't struggling like Cahokia Heights is. Let's not paint the entire state with a broad brush, just because the poorest Metro East communities are struggling.

Each of Illinois' 10 largest metropolitan and micropolitan areas suffered population decline from 2010-2020. It is absolutely a hinderance (at least for now) to the City of StL to share a boarder with Illinois. Its almost the exact opposite of the relationship KC shares with Kansas.

urbanitas · PostJul 21, 2021#232021-07-21T20:32+00:00

quincunx wrote: ↑
Jul 21, 2021
St. Louis Public Radio - New Lawsuit Filed Over Chronic Flooding, Sewage Issues In Former Centreville Area

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/governm ... ville-area

It's almost like building communities in the flood plains of major river systems, and the continued encouragement thereof, is maybe a bad idea...?

symphonicpoet · PostJul 22, 2021#242021-07-22T04:57+00:00

^I've been thinking that since 1993.

quincunx · PostAug 17, 2021#252021-08-17T17:14+00:00

Stltoday - EPA orders Cahokia Heights to address overflow-prone sewers

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea ... f05ed.html

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