Its not as bad as it used to be. They cleaned it up for the gambling boats. But I still wouldn't got here at night. And that mayor and PC are both well known to be crooked as hell.
We got lost through there coming back from picking peaches about 6 years ago, we lived in a western suburb of St. Louis.
If that was cleaned up it scared the living daylights out of my husband who had all of our children duck down the whole way through the place.
BTW we got lost once in a bad part of town in Detroit once and it was not as scary as East St. Louis...LOL!