The slide of downtown St. Louis tracks with the crumbling of streets and sidewalks. We can do something about it. This is a free story; no paywall ($).

Illegal dumping is a scourge across St. Louis. But few sites can rival the trash piled up at Courtney and Monroe avenues.

They had the money, said Nancy Cross, the citys operations director under former Mayor Tishaura O. Jones.

Headlines from the April 30, 1926, front page include: Wives call police as husbands tarry at wrestling bout.