Alton Mayor David Goins will keynote the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Program at 10 a.m. Monday, January 15, 2024 at Mt. Joy Missionary Baptist Church, located at 327
The existential threat from flooding is also an economic one for the cities and towns that hug the country's major rivers. In total, flooding in 2019 along the Mississippi and its tributaries caused an estimated $6.2 billion in damage, including millions in the St. Louis region.