Louis and then by wagon across the Mississippi River on the old Eades Bridge to go to East St. Louis. IL. to join with other Lithuanian immigrants. immigrants who worked in the packinghouses. in the steel mills. in some of the hardest jobs you could find. Our familys story is a story that has been repeated millions of times over. I am sure my mother never would have dreamed in those early times when she was struggling with her family to make an immigrant home that her son would one day represent the great State of Illinois. But that is the story of America. And it is a story we should honor.
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