What magazine voted an athlete who got her start with The East St. Louis Railers Track Club the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time?
Sports Illustrated for Women
The Railers (track team)
The East St. Louis Railers Track Club are a track team of East St Louis, Illinois They are known as the club which gave Jackie Joyner-Kersee her start.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is an American retired track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump.
 She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those two events at four different Olympic Games. "
Sports Illustrated for Women" magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time.
War Lords
The War Lords were a Black militant youth organization in East St. Louis, Illinois in the 1960's.
 Founded in January 1965 as The Royal Serpents, the organization's name changed to Imperial War Lords within its first month of existence.
 The organization sponsored teenage dances, and frequented the First United Lutheran Church, whose pastors Sonny Goldenstein and later Keith Davis ministered to them.
 The group was led by Charles "Sweed" Jeffries, who was active in the East St. Louis school boycotts in the spring of 1968.
 He was closely associated with Charles Koen, and often arrested.
 The War Lords played an active role in Project IMPACT (innovative Methods of Positive Action for Community Tranquility), a federally funded arts and recreation program in East St. Louis which sponsored summer music concerts.
 In 1968, the War Lords were involved in the formation of Youth Organizations United, a national coalition of street gangs, which included the Black Knights from Memphis, the Black Egyptians from East St. Louis, the Vice Lords from Chicago, the Thugs United from New Orleans and many others.
 At sometime in 1969, the War Lords joined with the Black Egyptians and possibly Black Culture Inc. as well to form the United Front of East St. Louis.
 There are few references to the War Lords after that, although in one late press release, Charles Jeffries stated that membership had been opened to whites.
 The War Lord's transition to mixed race membership lead to other endeavors and the formation of Warlords MC(Motorcycle Club), the nation's first interracial 3 piece patch MC. East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, in the Metro-East region of Southern Illinois.
 Once a bustling industrial center like many cities in the Rust Belt, East St. Louis has been severely affected by loss of jobs due to deindustrialization during the second half of the 20th century.
 In 1950, East St. Louis was the fourth largest city in Illinois when population peaked at 82,366.
 As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 27,006, less than one-third of the 1950 census. East St. Louis riots
The East St. Louis riots, or East St. Louis massacres, of May and July 1917 were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence that caused the death of at least 40 Black people and approximately $400,000 in property damage (over $8 million, in 2017 US Dollars ).
 The events took place in East St. Louis, Illinois, an industrial city on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from St. Louis, Missouri.
 They have been described as the worst case of labor-related violence in 20th-century American history, and among the worst race riots in U.S. history.
 The local Chamber of Commerce called for the resignation of the police chief.
 At the end of July, some 10,000 people marched in silent protest in New York City in condemnation of the riots. East St. Louis Lincoln High School
East St. Louis Lincoln High School was a high school in East St. Louis, Illinois.
 It was established in 1909 as a school for blacks and consolidated with East St. Louis Senior High School in 1998. East St. Louis Community College Center
East St. Louis Community College Center (ESLCCC) serves as host to Illinois community colleges that extend the offering of some of their programs and services to E. St. Louis area residents in the city of East St. Louis.
 Students can attend community college classes within their home community.
 ESLCCC is located at the East St. Louis Higher Education Campus in East St. Louis at 601 James R. Thompson Blvd. Union Trust Bank Company Building
The Union Trust Bank Company Building is a historic bank building located at 200 Collinsville Avenue in downtown East St. Louis, Illinois.
 Built from 1922 to 1926, the building housed the Union Trust & Savings Bank, which was founded in 1901 by August Schlafly.
 Architect Thomas Imbs designed the Classical Revival building.
 The bank's opening followed a major race riot and a series of corruption scandals in East St. Louis, and its construction marked a turnaround in what had until then been a struggling city.
 The new building inspired confidence in the city's downtown, and several landmark buildings were built in downtown East St. Louis in the ensuing decade.
 The building was one of two Classical Revival banks built in East St. Louis and is the only one which is still standing. St. Louis tornado history
The St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area has a history of tornadoes.
 The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis – East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
 The second-costliest tornado also occurred in St. Louis in September 1927.
 More tornado fatalities occurred in St. Louis than any other city in the United States.
 Also noteworthy is that destructive tornadoes occurred in winter and autumn, as well as the typical months of spring.
 Additionally, damaging tornadoes occurred in the morning and late at night, as well as the more common late-afternoon to early-evening maximum period. Spivey Building
The Spivey Building is a twelve-story skyscraper located at 417 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois.
 Built in 1927, the building is the only skyscraper ever constructed in East St. Louis.
 Architect Albert B. Frankel designed the building in the Commercial style.
 The building's design features terra cotta spandrels separating its windows vertically and brick pier dividing its window bays.
 The asymmetrical entrance is surrounded by decorative marble piers, and the first two stories are separated from the rest of the building by a cornice and sill.
 The top of the building features a two-story parapet with terra cotta surrounds at each window and seven capitals at its peak.
 During the height of East St. Louis' prosperity through the 1950s, the building housed the offices of professionals in many fields who were considered among the best in the city.
 However, the building became a victim of the city's steep economic decline and has been abandoned for several decades.