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Filmed on Thursday, November 28 2024, I drive around Ladue, MO to see what's going on.

Ladue has the highest median household income of any city in Missouri with population over 1,000.

Ladue is named for Ladue Road, which was the road that connected St. Louis to the large country estate of Peter Albert LaDue. Much of that former estate is now Saint Louis Country Club.

The area began as a farming community. In the early 1900s, farmers began selling plots of land to city workers who wished to live outside the urban setting.

In 1986, the city of Ladue sued residents E. Terrence Jones and Joan Kelly Horn for living together without being married. The city ordered them to get married or leave their home, and the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the city. Soon after that ruling, the Missouri Human Rights Act was passed which made housing discrimination on the basis of familial status illegal.

In the 1990s, Ladue tried to force a resident to remove a yard sign protesting war in the Persian Gulf. The ACLU sued the city and the case made it all the way to the United States Supreme Court which unanimously ruled that the yard sign was protected by The Constitution. (City of Ladue v. Gilleo).

Despite it's small population, Ladue has produced many notable people:

Chuck Berry - Musician
Joe Buck - Television Broadaster
August Busch III - Former chairman of Anheuser-Busch
William H.T. Bush - Brother of president George H.W. Bush
Maxine Clark - Founder of Build-A-Bear
William DeWitt Jr. - Chairman of the St. Louis Cardinals
Albert Bond Lambert - Founder of Lamber-St. Louis International Airport
James Smith McDonnell - Founder of McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing)
San Musial - Hall of Fame baseball player

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