Merger On! St. Louis County Loses as St. Charles County, City of St. Louis Merge

In a stunning announcement today, City of St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann will announce the merger of the City of St. Louis and St. Charles County. The effort to merge the city and St. Louis County, long sought by many has ended and the county has been left out.

Each side sought to highlight the positives of the merger that could prove unpopular with some. "This is really the best of both worlds," said Ehlmann. "St. Charles County now has a professional baseball team, an incredible architectural legacy and mass transit, but we don't have to live right next to it." Mayor Slay echoed the comments, stating, "the City of St. Louis just expanded its boundaries for the first time since 1876 and in the process we gained an enormous tax base and became incredibly diverse."