St. Louis Public Radio

St. Louis all but declared victory after the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s director gave the city the nod earlier this month for a new $1.75 billion facility.

Yet officials across the river aren’t giving up on a 182-acre site in St. Clair County.

"We aren’t just talking about argument about which side of the river it’s going on," said Congressman Mike Bost of Illinois. "We’re talking about the long-term security of this facility as well as the overall cost to taxpayers."

Bost and other Illinois officials point to errors in the Final Environmental Impact Statement put together by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that sometimes confused the Illinois county with St. Clair counties in Missouri and Michigan.