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Cairo ( / ˈkɛəroʊ / KAIR-oh, [4] sometimes / ˈkeɪroʊ / KAY-roh) [5] is the southernmost city in Illinois and the county seat of Alexander County. A river city, Cairo has the lowest elevation of any location in Illinois and is the only Illinois city to be surrounded by levees. It is in the river-crossed area of Southern Illinois known as ...
The Cairo and Vincennes Railroad was a 19th-century American railroad that connected Cairo, Illinois, with Vincennes, Indiana. It was chartered by the state of Illinois in 1867 through the efforts of former American Civil War General Green B. Raum, who subsequently oversaw the planning and engineering of the proposed line.
Racial unrest in Cairo, Illinois. From 1967 to 1973, an extended period of racial unrest occurred in the town of Cairo, Illinois. The city had long had racial tensions which boiled over after a black soldier was found hanged in his jail cell. Over the next several years, fire bombings, racially charged boycotts and shootouts were common place ...
The Cairo Historic District is a historic district encompassing a large section of Cairo, Illinois. The district is roughly bounded by Park, 33rd, Sycamore, 21st, Cedar, and 4th Streets and the Ohio River ; it includes most areas of Cairo developed by 1890, save for two sections which are almost entirely renovated or deteriorated.
5 ft ( 1,524 mm) Length. 3,130.21 mi (5,037.58 km) The Illinois Central Railroad ( reporting mark IC ), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
In 1929, businessman Liú Róngyù built a three-story baroque-style mansion for his family of nine. In the 1950s, the family abandoned the mansion. Though no one is certain of the reason, there ...
New Albany and Louisville. 1912. 38°16′57″N 85°48′05″W. / 38.28250°N 85.80139°W / 38.28250; -85.80139. McAlpine Locks and Dam (Only to Shippingport Island, not all the way across river) New Albany and Louisville. ( Falls of the Ohio) 1830. 38°16′41″N 85°47′25″W / .
Alton and St. Louis Railroad. Alton and Sangamon Railroad. Alton and Southern Railroad. American Central Railway. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Aurora Branch Railroad. Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company. Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railroad. Aurora, Plainfield and Joliet Railroad.