sentences:  Because the riots were racial terrorism, the Equal Justice Initiative has included these deaths among the lynchings of African Americans in the state of Illinois in its 2017 3rd edition of its report, "Lynching in America".The riots had disrupted East St. Louis, which had seemed to be on the rise as a flourishing industrial city.In addition to the human toll, they cost approximately $400,000 in property damage (over $8 million, in 2017 US Dollars ).