I went to Cairo IL this summer and it was amusing.
They have dozens of 1950s buildings but little else. The view of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers converging also is nice. But the town is almost completely abandoned. It’s like a ghost town.
Cairo
that's what I've heard. total dump. "The world has moved on." for Cairo, IL.
Garden of the Gods in the Shawnee National Forrest.
Also near Shawneetown there is an old slave house. or at least used to be.
Make sure you have a full tank of gas before coming into Illinois.
The view of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers converging also is nice. But the town is almost completely abandoned. It’s like a ghost town.
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During the floods (2011?), the Corps of Engineers decided to blast the levees down stream from worthless Cairo, Illinois to “save it”. In the process flooded hundreds of thousands of valuable farm land acreage in Missouri.