This is as true today as ever, shown not only by the fact that 10.7% of 2008 fine art graduates were unemployed after leaving university (see graphic), but also by the high proportion listing catering or retail work as their primary occupation.
Lambert Airport. The Hill is a quiet area south of Forest Park and west of Kingshighway in St. Louis where Italian immigrants from Lombardy settled in the early 1900s. The neighborhood, once called Fairmount Heights, also had many German and Irish immigrants who worked in the clay mines.
But I suppose Cahokia is lucky. Less than ten miles to the west, the ancient Indian mounds that gave St. Louis the nickname Mound City in the 1800s were almost completely leveled by the turn of the century. Today only one survives, along with some photographs and a little dogleg road named Mound Street.