Here are places to get overnight shelter during Arctic blast in southwestern Illinois
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The St. Vincent de Paul overnight center in East St. Louis had 68 people, including one family with children, spend the night as temperatures plunged below zero on Thursday night into Friday morning.
A larger number of people is expected to go to the center on Friday night, according to Joe Hubbard, vice president of the board of the St. Vincent de Paul Belleville Council.
The overnight center is next to the St. Vincent de Paul outreach center at 3718 State St.
The overnight center is open 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. ,while the outreach center is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
For more information or to make a donation, you can call the St. Vincent de Paul Society at 618-394-0126.
Elsewhere in the metro-east, people who need to warm up overnight can also go to the Fairmont City Community Center at 4001 Cookson Road and to the O’Fallon Public Safety Building at 285 N. Seven Hills Road.
Neither of those places had people go there Thursday night, according Killian Weir, the village clerk in Fairmont City, and O’Fallon Mayor Herb Roach.
If you need a place to get warm during the day, you can check here for a list of sites compiled by the United Way.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill advisory for the metro-east until noon Saturday.
