That’s how the neighbors alongside the landfill describe it: as a living creature, a growling menace—the modern-day incarnation of Typhon, the monster of Greek mythology with a hundred dragon heads, cast into the underworld but still capable of unleashing volcanic powers. It has resided 240...
This is the same working-class neighborhood that gave birth to the Yankees’ “It ain’t over till it’s over” Yogi Berra and the Cardinals’ Joe Garagiola. Just a few blocks from The Hill is the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park, adjacent to the historic Shaw, Tower Grove...