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The church looks fairly old. In years past, East St. Louis had a high Catholic population.

Gethsemane Church is a contemporary evangelical church located on the south side of the Metro Link tracks in Emerson Park. Located directly across from the much-older Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic church, Gethsemane Church represents the…

The Jackie Joyner Youth Center Garden helps the community by grow vegetables and other crops by donating produce to charities. The Jackie Joyner Youth Center Garden is two years old and was started by a family farm.

Emerson Park houses a community center, office space, retail space, and community gardens. It was developed by the East St. Louis housing authority.

This image provides an inside view of the Jackie Joyner Kersee Center dance room.

This image is of the ramp structure in Malcolm Martin Park. The ramp structure leads you up to the Malcolm W. Martin statue. The Mississippi River overlook was completed in the spring of 2009 thanks to the support of Gateway Center of Metropolitan St…

This image provides an inside view of the Jackie Joyner Kersee Youth Center. This building was built in 2001.

This image shows a Wheaties flyer hanging inside of the Jackie Joyner Kersee Youth Center. Jackie Joyner Kersee is featured on the poster jumping over a track hurdle.

This image provides an inside picture of Jackie Joyner Kersee Youth Center's science room. This picture shows two small Black History posters that are displayed in the science room.

The plaque shows when the bridge was built in 2003.