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1879 - Thomas Winstanley (Winstanley Park), a Bowman supporter, serves as mayor for one year under General Law. The Supreme Court will later declare General Law invalid.Charter adherents (anti-Bowmanites) elect Maurice Joyce mayor and a separate council of their own. Bowman's police force (organized by law in 1867 at the insistence of large taxpayers who insisted the city was being mismanaged) located at the police station on Main Street, engages in battle with the rival Metropolitan Police garrisoned at the city prison. When it is over, Bowman's marshals flee, leaving two of their dead behind. Bob Ingersoll (a noted agnostic) says that there is no Hell but that he'd "probably change his mind if he had to go on riot duty in East St. Louis." First Board of Education elected with a membership of six. Previous boards have been appointed. In 1902 the number win be raised to thirteen, but by 1961 the number had been reduced to seven.
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