South End New Development Organization

Committed to improving the South End through community development strategies

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Currently, SENDO members meet at the Truelight Baptist Church. SENDO would like to see the Mary Brown Center reopened for community activities and become the home for the neighborhood organizations.

SENDO's Mission:

• To improve the social, economic and physical conditions in the South End neighborhood, through community development strategies.
• To serve as an advisory and coordinating body through which business, public and private organizations, government, and individuals may work together for the redevelopment and beautification of the South End.
• To preserve the beauty and South End environment of East St. Louis, through educational efforts.
• Promote other activities aimed at combating community deterioration.
• To solicit and receive grants, contributions, gifts of real and personal property from individuals, foundations, partnership associations, government bodies and to maintain use and apply the whole or any part of the income for community improvement or betterment purposes.

South End New Development Organization Invites you to join your neighborhood association

The South End neighborhood needs your input and participation. Together we can get things done. Monthly meetings are held the First Wednesday of each month at 5:30p.m. in the basement of True Light Baptist Church at 1535 Tudor. For any correspondence, you can contact Fern Watts at 271-3392, Evelyn King at 271-2744 or any of the Board Members.

Leadership

Fern Watts, President, 271.3392
Sarah Dansberry, Treasurer, 274-1889
Anne Floore, Vice President, 274.1250
Flora Reeves, Financial Secretary, 271-8423
Sharon Ward, Secretary, 651-1851

Web Resources

• Resources
• Maps
• Historical Information
• Events
• University of Illlinois Coursework related to South End

Resources

• The South End Neighborhood Plan, 2003
• The South End Neighborhood Plan, 2002
• South End Neighborhood Data Book and Program Ideas (formerly known as The 2002 South End Revitalization Plan) - A Five-year Redevelopment Strategy for improving the Quality of Life for Current and future residents of South End
• Photos of South End Neighborhood
• Photo Tours of East St. Louis, 1990 (includes South End) from East St. Louis, The Way It Is, 1990 by Ruben L. Yelvington
• Inventory of ESL Park District Facilities (includes Lincoln Park)
• Outreach Weekend: October 18-19, 2002 - South End Neighborhood, Paint NTAC Ramp, Unruly Weeds, Virginia Place Lot Clean-up, Bolden Community Garden/Olivette Park Lot, Kenneth Hall/Jones Park Fountain, Paint Trendley Ave. House, Other: Pictures of new construction.
• Outreach Weekend: September 27-28, 2002 - South End Neighborhood, Lincoln Park Tennis Courts, Tudor Avenue Cleanup, Trendley Avenue Lot Cleanup, Illinois Avenue Playground.
• Outreach Weekend: March 8-9, 2002 -Community Technology Center Site Surveys, Green Acres Mini Park, Hopewell Baptist Church, Lansdowne Neighborhood Plan, Better Days Cemetery, Petitions Signed, Lead Safe Yards, South End Park, Community Mission Child Care, Emerson Park Development Corporation History Project, Additional Photos by Richard Prairie Posner.
• Outreach Weekend: February 1-2, 2002 - Data collection for the development of a comprehensive plan for the South End Neighborhood, and South End Park "before pictures".
• Outreach Weekend : October 22-23, 1999 - Brooklyn Historic Gravesite, Flyering and Surveying the South End Neighborhood, Adventures in Motivation Recreational Site, Virginia Park tree planting, etc., Paint a storage shed for the Washington Park Emergency Organization, Door to door outreach for WIPNO , Golden Gardens Surveys, Survey of the historic buildings in Olivette Park, Measuring the Incubator Building for Remodeling, NTAC Face Lift

Maps from EGRETS: East St. Louis Geographic Information Retrieval System
The Online Guide to Geographic Information about East St. Louis

• South End - Shade Trees on Private Property
• South End - Building Condition
• South End - Building Improvements
• South End - Building Materials
• South End - Building Occupancy
• South End - Buildings with Evidence of Fire Damage
• South End - Height of Existing Buildings
• South End - Land Use
• South End - Land Use with Aerial Photo
• South End - Property Conditions
• South End - Street Trees
• South End - Trash Conditions
• South End - Trash Conditions on Public Right-of-way
• South End - Unwanted Plant Growth in Right of Way
• Street Map - South End

Historical Information

• Loyd Carr remembers EAST ST. LOUIS "FROM 1926 ON" from The Good Things of East St. Louis by W. Edward English
• "What happened to East St. Louis? How did it get into such a mess?" from East St. Louis, The Way It Is, 1990 by Ruben L. Yelvington

Events

University of Illlinois Coursework related to South End

• ARCH 372/LA338/UP378 Spring 2003 - A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary ESLARP Studio Workshop (South End Plan) Instructors: Lynne Dearborn, School of Architecture; Laura Lawson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Landscape Architecture; Stacy Harwood, Dept of Urban and Regional Planning; Janni Sorensen, Teaching Assistant, Dept of Urban and Regional Planning.
• UP 260 Fall 2002 - Social Inequality and Social Welfare Planning - East St. Louis Oral History Project (South End Neighborhood) Instructor: Dr. Stacy Harwood, Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
• UP 497 Summer 2002 - ESLARP GIS: A REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF GIS WITHIN THE EAST ST. LOUIS ACTION RESEARCH PROGRAM (Includes maps of South End) (Independent Study by Kristofer Johnson)
• UP 378 Spring 2002 - Community Development Workshop (South End Plan) Instructor: Janni Sorensen, Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Planning
• ARCH 372/LA 338 Spring 2002 - A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary ESLARP Studio Workshop (South End Neighborhood) Instructors: Lynne Dearborn, Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture; Laura Lawson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture; Robert I. Selby, AIA, Associate Professor, School of Architecture.

Last modified: 28 August 2003, Deanna Koenigs

Neighborhood Technical Assistance Center
527 Washington Place, East St, Louis, IL 62205
Phone: 618-271-9605 Fax: 618-271-9651
Website: www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/