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Stookey Township, St. Clair County, Illinois

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Stookey Township is a township located in Saint Clair county, Illinois. It is an un-incoporated part of Belleville, Illinois located just west, northwest of downtown Belleville. Mostly residential homes and small businesses occupy the region along with occassional shopping centers (one is currently under construction and will be finished by December 2006). The township rides along Illinois highway route 13 and converges with Illinois Highway 15 and 159. Some of the largest residential areas include Hickory Lake, Hickory Village and two presently unnamed subdivisions, one once being called Heritage Estates, which as since lost it's name after participation in the neighborhood's home owner's association dropped in the early 1980s. The zipcode for the township is 62223. The telephone code of the township is 618.

Major locations and or places in and around Stookey township include:

-Belleville West High School (public school)

-Altoff Catholic High School (private school)

-EMGE (public middle school)

-"Our Lady of the Snows" National Shrine

-Memorial Hospital and Memorial Park

-Memorial Hospital Metro-Link Station

-Skyview Drive-in Theatre (One of few Drive-in theatres still operating in the state)

-Citizen's Park

-Saint Clair County Fairgrounds

Transportation in and around of Stookey Township includes one "Metro-Link" light rail station (Memorial Station), and about two dozen "Metro-Bus" stops all around the Township. Metro-Bus is a subdivisonal operation of the Metro-Link coporation. Several taxi companies can be contacted and requested within the township. The Illinois West-Central Railway also runs through the township in which supply and cargo frieght trains run through at least a few times a day on the way to Chicago, IL, Saint Louis, MO, or East Saint Louis, IL. The closest airport to Stookey Township is the Mid-America Airport, which is about 6 miles to the east of the township. The closest major international airport is Lambert International which is west of Saint Louis, MO and it is about 18 miles away.

Utility companies that work in the area are the Ameren UE Electric Company, the Illinois-American Water Company, Belleville Sewage, and several public and privately owned trash collection companies are avaliable to choose from. Since Stookey Township isn't offical part of Belleville proper it does not recieve city trash service, so residents must contact a collection company to setup deals on trash collection. Citizens of Stookey also can not get library cards or check out books at Belleville libraries. No libraries exist so far in Stookey Township. Stookey township citizens are protected by the Illinois State Patrol, and the Belleville city fire department, but Belleville city police do not have jurisdiction in Stookey Township.

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