On this week's Vintage KSDK, we go back 62 years to the day ground was broken on construction of the wall that keeps the City of St. Louis dry in a flood. 2 p.m., February 24, 1959.

“My forever home and North Star, this is for East Saint Louis, Illinois,” reads the text Allena Brazier wrote next to her piece “Back Home and Across tha River”. “My forever home and ...

In East St. Louis, Illinois on July 1, 1917, a rumor spread claiming that a white man had been killed by a black man, and tensions boiled over. The next day, the city of East St. Louis exploded in ...