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Cairo Illinois was once a thriving river town in Southern Illinois . It is the point where The Ohio meets The Mississippi. Cairo has been a ghost town for several years now , due to economics,crime, social and racial unrest. The population is now down to less than fifteen hundred people . Sad to say most of the old structures have fallen down and lay in the streets. A few have survived like The Art Bank , but for how long ? There has been government intervention trying to save the town. Who at one time had several blocks listed on the National Register Of Historic Places . In the May 2011 floods the Ohio rose above flood stage , the Army Corps Of Engineers breached levees in the Mississippi flood zone to save Cairo. Some wonder why they even bothered . It appears to little to late for this historic town. Dan and I are going to go back but we wonder if anything will still be standing.