Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz

ILASCO was created in 1903. Large numbers of Romanian, Slovak, Italian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Polish, Croatian and other immigrants joined native-born residents drawn here by jobs at the Atlas Portland Cement Plant. ILASCO through its churches, schools, folklore, languages, fraternal societies, cuisines and daily life, left a rich working-class culture heritage that made it unique in Missouri. The community's name is an acronym for some of the cement manufacturing ingredients (Iron, Lime, Alumina, Silica, Calcium, and Oxygen). ILASCO was converted into a company town in 1921 and dissolved in 1963.

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