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People fill Belleville s downtown main street for the city s annual Chili Cookoff in 2016. Organizers were forced to move the event to a virtual setting last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but they plan to return in person this year.
Summers in St. Louis are marked by festivals, parades, homecomings and other outdoor community gatherings in towns large and small.
But the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic uprooted those traditions, forcing public event organizers to scramble to host their events virtually or scrap them completely.
“It was just sad,” said Wendy Pfeil, president and CEO of the Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce. “It’s something the community looks forward to every year, and you took that away from them.”
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