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2011 Visit

Cairo, IL

I returned to Cairo in 2011 to find the old downtown even more barren than my visit nine years earlier - although the demolition gave it a surprisingly clean, post-post-apocalyptic look.

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Flooding north of town

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Cairo exit from I-57

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2011 Visit

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Days Inn still there just off the Interstate

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Future City?

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Not so much

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Bunge Corporation - one of the town's few employers?

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Looking NE down Eighth Street

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Gem Theatre

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Gem Theatre

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Tough job

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Looking NW down Commerce Ave.

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Survivors on Commerce Ave. SE of Eighth St.

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Fat Boys Bar and Grill

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Looking NW down Commerce Ave.

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Rhodes Burford Furniture

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Rhodes Burford Furniture

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Looking SE down Commerce Ave.

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Looking SE down Commerce Ave.

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NW side of Eighth Street

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Public housing

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Mighty Rivers

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Mighty Rivers

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Ace Cups, 1007 Washington Ave.

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Cheap is a growth business

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Safford Library

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Visit Historical Cairo

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