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Old 07-30-2022, 12:08 PM
 
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That area has been around for a long time. Things get renewed.
You said that I don't see what you see. What do you think is going to happen in Future City in the next decade?
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Old 07-30-2022, 12:52 PM
 
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I swear you guys just like arguing with me.

I've summed up my thoughts on the matter.
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Old 07-30-2022, 01:21 PM
 
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I swear you guys just like arguing with me.

I've summed up my thoughts on the matter.
No. I want to know where you're coming from on this. I'm not seeing the same thing you're seeing.
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Old 08-03-2022, 12:38 AM
 
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I thought the state or local government owned Riverlore.

From what I can tell, about a 2 or 3 square block area around Riverlore and similar mansions is about the only vital part left in Cairo. Probably not sufficient to act as the epicenter of a resurgence of the rest of the town around it.
You thought wrong. Cairo unloaded that pile of bricks few years ago.

https://thesouthern.com/news/local/c...36cd91d69.html

New owners have a FB page, so those interested can keep up with what's happening.

https://www.facebook.com/people/Rive...0057449949125/


On same block Magnolia Mansion has a cloudy fate as well.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2...-magnolia-man/

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Old 08-03-2022, 01:13 AM
 
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Based on what I've read, southern Illinois has a history of racial upheaval. Cairo had it to an extreme level.

Cairo has been losing population since the 1920s. Barges made stopping at Cairo redundant. Highways would bypass Cairo. Railroads reduced the steamboat traffic. The racial upheaval of the 1960s proved to be the death kneel for Cairo.
Railroads were first a boom to Cairo, goods arrived by train but still had to be ferried across river. While arrival in 1989 of Illinois Central Railroad bridge did cut down on some barge traffic, city still managed to carry on. Subsequent bridges, Thebes Bridge, then Cairo Mississippi River Bridge are what pretty much killed off huge part of Cairo's economic base.

Now both passenger vehicles, trucks, and rail traffic all could bypass Cairo, which they did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebes_Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_...i_River_Bridge

Cairo, IL still managed to hold onto population through WWII and immediate post war era. This even as jobs from ferry/barge and associated industries were gone prompting people to leave.

Then came the race tensions (ok, riots) that began around 1968 and didn't wholly end until 1970 or so. Between inflamed racial tensions, and national media coverage of same Cairo wasn't exactly on everyone's top ten places to move.

Last nail in coffin came in 1978 when Interstate 57 bridge was opened. Bypassing Cairo, it virtually killed off hospitality and tourist trade.

As of 2020 census Cairo's population is only 1,733 persons. Of that number Whites make up minority at 434 (25.04%), Blacks are majority 1,193 (68.84%) with small number of Hispanic/Latino 20 (1.15%).

Rest of it is as others have mentioned; the flooding (recently quite severe), loss of industry/jobs due to decline of Mississippi River traffic..
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Old 01-21-2023, 08:30 AM
 
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cairo-illinois

This and flooding issues surely hasn't helped.
what i cannot understand
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