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Steel Plant Explosion
11:57 am
Thu March 7, 2013

Hospital: At Least 9 Hurt In Granite City Steel Plant Blast

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Updated at 4:35 p.m. with response from Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Updated at 3:30 p.m. with additional information and clarifications.

A reported explosion at a southwestern Illinois steel plant has injured at least nine people, including two who remain hospitalized.

Fire officials say the blast happened shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday at American Steel Foundries in Granite City, just northeast of St. Louis.

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Hard Times: A Journey Across America
9:27 am
Wed November 30, 2011

Granite City, Ill.: A steel town looks at its future, and sees rebirth

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The old Granite City Steel Mill is now owned and operated by US Steel.
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In and near its downtown, there are more boarded-up and empty storefronts and vacant lots in Granite City, Ill., than there are businesses.
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Brenda Whitaker, owner of the Garden Gate Tea Room in Granite City, Ill., is a former steelworker and lifelong resident of Granite City. She calls her quaint restaurant "a different world," from the one she left behind in the steel mill a few blocks away.
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Originally published on Wed November 30, 2011 11:07 am

Part of a monthlong series

The Great Recession has hit the industrial Midwest especially hard in recent years, from big cities to small factory towns. But now, in at least one small Illinois city, local leaders believe the worst is finally behind them.

Sitting across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Louis, Granite City, Ill., has certainly seen better days. In its downtown, there are more boarded-up and empty storefronts and vacant lots than there are businesses.

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Power Line Death
11:54 am
Fri October 14, 2011

Coroner: Granite City man killed trying to steal power lines

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Authorities near Alton in southwestern Illinois are investigating the electrocution of a man whose body was found near snipped electrical power lines investigators believe he was trying to steal.

Madison County Coroner Stephen Nonn says 34-year-old Mark Becker of Granite City was found dead early Friday. Investigators believe he died Thursday night.

Nonn says evidence at the scene suggests that Becker made contact with charged overhead power lines after they had been cut from the utility pole.

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