Schnucks is a supermarket chain. Based in suburban St. Louis, the company was started in 1939 with the opening of a 1,000-square-foot store in north St. Louis city and now operates 100 stores in five states throughout the midwest. Schnucks also ran stores under the Logli Supermarkets and Hilander Foods banners. Schnucks is one of the largest privately held supermarket chains in the United States.
Established in 1878 and reconstituted in 1981, the Veiled Prophet Fair, nominally the Fair Saint Louis starting in 1995,[1] is an annual festival held during the July 4 holiday in downtown St. Louis, Missouri at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.