• Cairo (/ˈkɛəroʊ/ KAIR-oh, sometimes /ˈkeɪroʊ/ KAY-roh) is the southernmost city in Illinois and the county seat of Alexander County.
  • C Cairo, Illinois was slated to be the new boomtown of the Midwest. Situated at the juncture of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, Cairo was poised to take over...
  • The town began to grow when the Illinois Central Railroad was completed in 1856, which connected Cairo to Galena, Illinois, in the northwest corner of the state.
  • One of America’s most haunting abandoned cities is a once prosperous port town called Cairo, Illinois.
  • Situated at the flood-prone confluence of the Mississippi River and the Ohio River, at the southernmost point in Illinois, the port town of Cairo boomed along with...
  • Located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers surrounded by levees, Cairo, Illinois was strategically important during the Civil War but today is one of...
  • Once a bustling hub for the steamboat and railroad industries, the town of Cairo, Illinois now sits abandoned due to economic decline and racial violence.
  • Cairo, Illinois is an abandoned town that sits at the tri-state with Kentucky and Missouri. Basically, the entire town is on the National Register of Historic Places...
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