Christopher Gladney took to the mic at a Northside Independent Neighborhood Association meeting in O’Fallon in late August.

“I've been a business owner for the past 25 years, and I just really want to see what is the best way forward for the north side,” said Gladney, an O’Fallon resident and president of the group. “How can we practically change our conditions that we face here?”

Nearly 20 residents from all over the north side of St. Louis sat in rows of chairs in the Uhuru House on West Florissant Avenue in the city’s O’Fallon neighborhood.

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It was the group’s seventh meeting since its inception earlier this year, and everyone had one question on their minds following an EF3 tornado that cut through portions of the St. Louis region on May 16

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