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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.
Cairo (/ ˈ k ɛər oʊ / KAIR-oh, [4] sometimes / ˈ k eɪ r oʊ / 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.
Cairo Community Unit School District 1 is a unified school district located in Cairo, Illinois, which is the county seat of Alexander County. It is composed of two schools: Cairo Elementary School , which educates primary to fifth graders; and Cairo Junior and Senior High School , which encompasses grades six through twelve.
The county had the second-highest number of lynchings of African Americans in all of Illinois. [5] The most notorious of these was the lynching of Will James before a crowd of white spectators estimated at 10,000, in the county seat of Cairo on November 11, 1909. James was accused of murdering a young white woman.
Cairo Junior / Senior High School: Cairo, Illinois: Pilots Co-Pilots Blue White 1992-2003 (affiliate) 2003-2008 Independent team Carbondale University High School [11] Carbondale, Illinois: Lynx Maroon Gray 1963–1968 Closed in 1968. Carterville High School: Carterville, Illinois: Lions Lady Lions Navy Blue Orange 1949-1973 1975-2010
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When Cairo built a new post office in 1942, the building became the town's police station. The building is one of the few surviving U.S. custom houses and one of the largest federal buildings of its era in the Mid-Mississippi Valley region. [2] The custom house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1973. [1]
Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL. What is now Illinois was claimed as part of Illinois County, Virginia, between 1778 and 1782. Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time.