A bomb has hit St. Louis. Nearly a half century after the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood was flattened in the name of "urban renewal" and nicknamed "Hiroshima Flats" for its decades long barren landscape, the City of St. Louis continues to experience an exodus of grand proportions. The city population peaked with the 1950 Census at 856,796 residents. The 2000 Census recorded 348,189 residents. The 2010 Census officially counted 319,294 residents.
It had become conventional wisdom that the City had hit bottom, that the population was now increasing for the first time since 1950. The 2009 American Community Survey, a yearly estimate produced by the U.S. Census Bureau had estimated the population had grown 356,587 residents.Thu, Jun 21, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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