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Across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, the working-class town of Venice lost two-thirds of its population in recent decades, as well as its only grocery store, after steel and manufacturing jobs dried up. Ed Hightower, a retired school superintendent and award-winning basketball referee from the area, decided to invest $3.5 million to build a new one 鈥� a partnership with a state effort to tackle food deserts. Gov. JB Pritzker helped break ground on the project yesterday.