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October 6, 2015 | 2 min reading time

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Ceremonial opening of IKEA St. Louis on Sept. 30, 2015 

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay (r) and Goran Lithell, Deputy Chief of Mission from the Swedish Embassy,saw a ceremonial log during the grand opening of the 41st IKEA store, in St. Louis on September 30, 2015. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

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