Author: Margaret Smith

We created this crime map as a tool to visualize the relationship between violent crime and spatial injustice. It is a heat map of crimes reported in Alton for 2020-2024 using Illinois State Police crime records. The crime map has the potential to foster greater awareness of crime trends within the Alton community, empowering…

How do you cross a river? It sounds like a silly question, especially in a region with so many bridges. But for transit users in metro St. Louis, the Mississippi River, and with it the state line, pose significant challenges of time, money, and detailed knowledge of three different transit systems. Although the Census…