High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! East Grand Rapids is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,764 at the 2000 census. It is a suburb of Grand Rapids, known for its award-winning school system with extensive athletic championship (has one of the best football teams in the state), its affluence and its homogeneous ethnic composition. (It is almost completely European-Caucasian). Its pedestrian-friendly downtown, known as Gaslight Village, sits on the shore of Reeds Lake.