There are a lot of abandoned towns out there and very few people know their history, thanks for making the video. It’s shocking what the civil rights movement had to fight against, but I could proudly say that most of their efforts didn’t go in vain
Although civil strife certainly hurt Cairo, the video should mention that the construction of I-57 just north of the city removed most of the traffic on U.S. 51 which used to route much of the north-south traffic through downtown to the Ohio River bridge south of downtown. Amtrak and Canadian National run through over the Ohio River bridge without stopping. The waterfront doesn't bring in much business. Cairo is a town with little reason to exist.
The hundreds and thousands of stories like this, always make me scratch my head when people ask blacks “why is everything about Race”?, or stop playing the race card, seriously SMDH!
The 1993 flood was devastating. The levees broke and were not repaired. Insurance companies won't insure the homes because they're in an unprotected flood plain which prevents people from selling or buying property there because no bank will give a mortgage. Insurance can be bought through brokerages but fema backs it and it is really expensive, more than the property is worth. Cairo also had a huge decline due to the absent of the railways. This isn't racism, it's bad luck.
A lot of places have their boom and then their bust. It happened in the deep South near where I live with the cotton industry. A lot of gigantic Mansions that were built by wealthy plantation owners are now crumbling into dust in the woods. People made money and then people left when there was no more money to be made.
And this fact is a specially apparent in West Virginia where I lived for a while coal mines typically only about 20 years. People make so much money and then build big buildings to show off their wealth. It's not a testament so much to the decline of America as it is and unwillingness to maintain conspicuous consumption in one location.
LET'S GET THE MAJORITY OF THE HOMELESS POPULATIONS TO THESE GHOST TOWNS AND LET THEM START OVER...IF THERES EMPTY TOWNS LET THE HOMELESS START OVER AND EVEN STRUGGLERS WILL BE DOING BETTER THAN THEY ARE NOW🙏❗❗❗😇😇😇...THEY WILL HAVE A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS AND A BATHROOM N LIKELY A 🚿 SHOWER...EVERYTHING ELSE CAN BE BROUGHT IN OR BOUGHT❗❗❗
I’m pretty sure renovations to make most of these buildings livable again might be pretty expensive, seeing as most of them have been vacant for decades, but I’m not an contractor so I’m not sure.
@@aroundamerica perhaps the millions spent on illegal immigrants at hotels @ 500 per day per room & take that & invest in the legal homeless citizens whom are legal or even for veterans. . They would be so much more appreciative.
If you all ever heard of a country called Zimbabwe, basically what they did was they literally ran out the white people, killed their white farmers, that still stayed, and basically the country almost starved to death. The difference was, at a certain point, they decided to go against their government, and beg the white people to come back. And right now, they're begging for the South African white farmers to please come over there and grow and have land, and they're giving away land so people could come back. Cairo is a different story. Of course, you hear the propaganda that basically one day, one person was lynched. Basically, someone who did something to a woman, yes indeed, they were lynched, but also a white guy that same night, who did something to his wife, was also strung up and lynched. The same thing happened. So, Cairo, what happened was what you see in a lot of cities or towns. Basically, it's what we're seeing in Detroit, sort of on a smaller scale. Everyone left. Everyone. All the businesses, no one wanted to come in and invest. It's almost pointless to go down to Cairo at this point. Usually, in areas of the south or the west side of Chicago, before Target and Walmart came in, which now they have left, just to kind of give you a heads up, you would see Arabic stores. In fact, my best friend worked in one of those stores for years and years, starting when he was six years old. But, yeah, they would work in these areas because everyone was on government assistance. Basically, the government was footing the bill, so they could go ahead and upcharge. Because, of course, just like student loans, they're going to keep paying for it, so you could keep raising the tuition rates, kind of what they're doing with food. They could keep raising the food rates. But at this point, Cairo, there's no tax base there. There's no real police. There's nothing, so everyone left. There's no means of profit. The hospital there is closed because, again, you have no tax base. Yeah, you have everyone, most likely 100% of people there, are on government assistance. But how can a community support itself when everyone is on government assistance? At this point, the only way to revitalize this area is to literally take all those people on government assistance, tear down their government apartments, and move them somewhere else. But, of course, that is not going to happen. Hell, if you remember, over 10 years ago, there was a flood around Cairo. The federal government had an option of either saving the farmlands that actually made money in food or save the welfare cases in Cairo. And, of course, the federal government chose to save the welfare cases in Cairo. And all those farms lost thousands and, in some cases, millions. And those farmlands were flooded out. So nothing is going to be done with Cairo at this point. Sadly, you hear from the community in these areas, or people who have moved on who blame it all, of course, on white people, well, yeah, they left. They packed up and left. You wanted a riot. You wanted to say we was kings. Everyone left, and you guys got to support your own community, and this is what happened.
✔️💯✔️✌🏽☺️ Home boy, you packed this with information. A lot of people wouldn't see or hear about on media outlets and in documentaries. It will make a great blog post.
Cities in post Industrial Revolution America are simply no longer needed (at least as they once were when an immense labor pool was needed) as most of the factories are gone, and one man can do the job of 100 with automation anyway. Something like a third to forty percent of urban office space is unoccupied. Cities exist now mostly for tourism, conventions, sportsball team revenue, probably a college or two...but mostly as centers of Democratic Party organizing and ballot harvesting along with a plethora of gov't jobs, Section 8 housing and sundry welfare programs (read: even _more_ government jobs). As the cities decayed, the middle class fled to the suburbs taking their tax and spending money with them (and their political ideology, too unfortunately). Then the stranded poor working class followed them leaving behind a rotting corpse-the city. Then the middle class moved even farther away. So those suburbs began to decay. Folks are running out of places to run to. At some point, they'll be forced to make a stand...or lie down and die and give up on the futures of their descendants. I suspect more likely the latter.
I remember when I was a kid we used to go to Memphis. That was the old route to Cairo and my father used to always say that town was racist and he would always gas up before he got to Cairo. Never want to stop there and when we did stop, you could feel the racism.
I'm from Wickliffe Ky, across the river from Cairo Il. Harper's resturant is a SLAMMING place to eat. They have huge egg rolls that are fresh and made in shop. But ya, other than the drive through liquor store, the town is a sh!thole. Shame really. Could have been a really cool town with a cool layout. Edit: Erosion from the river has left potholes on the riverside streets that let you see the water rushing beneath your feet! For you daring folks...
@@aroundamerica that too. But more like blk towns that were taken over. Like rosewood and massacres. Learn about the town history before and after that would be very interesting
Haha I agree XD always hear how “oh we just do not have enough money to help Hawaii, “We don’t have enough money to fix the roads in Oregon” “We wish we can get rid of the homeless in California but there’s just not enough money” I can go on all day Ya the billions not millions but billions sent to Ukraine oh ya we got tons of money. And the media will tell u how much Ukraine is suffering. Which is only partly true. They basically chillin. Want to see a real war ? Look at Syria, Iraq, and right now Palestine, legit so many deaths. There’s no money to be made if USA helps. There’s money to be made with the greedy Ukrainian president. He’s legit scum. He just wants money, and he’s gotten so much money even from Putin way before the war. And they said after getting billions of $$ hey we need more money to help our people. What in the heck did u do with all that money we sent ? Ukraine: 🤷♂️ lol My dad lived there and served the military there, he always said how corrupt the government is, they get a ton and a ton of money but none if goes to the citizens, they all pocket it themselves and let the citizens suffer. But also brainwash them into thinking no the terrible state of things is only bcuz of Russia bcuz Russia never helps. USA doing the same thing with blacks and whites. For no reason Ukrainians hate Russians and Russians hate Ukrainians. Here blacks hate white and well idk would go as far as to say all whites hate blacks but definitely a lot do.
Cairo, Illinois' inexorable decline has nothing to do with whatever person occupies the Oval Office. The State of Illinois is governed entirely by the Democratic Party, which enjoys an overwhelming majority in the Illinois General Assembly, holds every elected executive office, controls the State Supreme Court, and the Governorship.
It's really worth a visit. If you like ghost towns.
Oh, and don't come at night.
I’d gladly go and especially at night . Ghost don’t scare me . The apparitions or physical ones
There are a lot of abandoned towns out there and very few people know their history, thanks for making the video. It’s shocking what the civil rights movement had to fight against, but I could proudly say that most of their efforts didn’t go in vain
Although civil strife certainly hurt Cairo, the video should mention that the construction of I-57 just north of the city removed most of the traffic on U.S. 51 which used to route much of the north-south traffic through downtown to the Ohio River bridge south of downtown. Amtrak and Canadian National run through over the Ohio River bridge without stopping. The waterfront doesn't bring in much business. Cairo is a town with little reason to exist.
Cairo died because infrastructure evolved, bringing race into it is just woke mind worms.
The hundreds and thousands of stories like this, always make me scratch my head when people ask blacks “why is everything about Race”?, or stop playing the race card, seriously SMDH!
Live two hrs away. Hard to believe a town so important during the civil war is now a zero
Something about that bridge. Must have a dark history? Was traveling with well known psychic that had an absolute meltdown going over bridge.
The 1993 flood was devastating. The levees broke and were not repaired. Insurance companies won't insure the homes because they're in an unprotected flood plain which prevents people from selling or buying property there because no bank will give a mortgage. Insurance can be bought through brokerages but fema backs it and it is really expensive, more than the property is worth. Cairo also had a huge decline due to the absent of the railways. This isn't racism, it's bad luck.
The town was destroyed by floods and a closed railroad line.
A lot of places have their boom and then their bust. It happened in the deep South near where I live with the cotton industry. A lot of gigantic Mansions that were built by wealthy plantation owners are now crumbling into dust in the woods. People made money and then people left when there was no more money to be made.
And this fact is a specially apparent in West Virginia where I lived for a while coal mines typically only about 20 years. People make so much money and then build big buildings to show off their wealth. It's not a testament so much to the decline of America as it is and unwillingness to maintain conspicuous consumption in one location.
LET'S GET THE MAJORITY OF THE HOMELESS POPULATIONS TO THESE GHOST TOWNS AND LET THEM START OVER...IF THERES EMPTY TOWNS LET THE HOMELESS START OVER AND EVEN STRUGGLERS WILL BE DOING BETTER THAN THEY ARE NOW🙏❗❗❗😇😇😇...THEY WILL HAVE A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS AND A BATHROOM N LIKELY A 🚿 SHOWER...EVERYTHING ELSE CAN BE BROUGHT IN OR BOUGHT❗❗❗
I’m pretty sure renovations to make most of these buildings livable again might be pretty expensive, seeing as most of them have been vacant for decades, but I’m not an contractor so I’m not sure.
@@aroundamerica perhaps the millions spent on illegal immigrants at hotels @ 500 per day per room & take that & invest in the legal homeless citizens whom are legal or even for veterans. .
They would be so much more appreciative.
@@arlenespencer5850 well that doesnt destroy america so i doubt our dearly officials will want anything to do with it
Seems like the kernel of a viable idea. Do you live in a small town or anywhere near Cairo?
Yep,that will fugg it so much quicker 😂😂😂
If you all ever heard of a country called Zimbabwe, basically what they did was they literally ran out the white people, killed their white farmers, that still stayed, and basically the country almost starved to death. The difference was, at a certain point, they decided to go against their government, and beg the white people to come back. And right now, they're begging for the South African white farmers to please come over there and grow and have land, and they're giving away land so people could come back.
Cairo is a different story. Of course, you hear the propaganda that basically one day, one person was lynched. Basically, someone who did something to a woman, yes indeed, they were lynched, but also a white guy that same night, who did something to his wife, was also strung up and lynched. The same thing happened.
So, Cairo, what happened was what you see in a lot of cities or towns.
Basically, it's what we're seeing in Detroit, sort of on a smaller scale. Everyone left. Everyone. All the businesses, no one wanted to come in and invest. It's almost pointless to go down to Cairo at this point. Usually, in areas of the south or the west side of Chicago, before Target and Walmart came in, which now they have left, just to kind of give you a heads up, you would see Arabic stores.
In fact, my best friend worked in one of those stores for years and years, starting when he was six years old. But, yeah, they would work in these areas because everyone was on government assistance. Basically, the government was footing the bill, so they could go ahead and upcharge. Because, of course, just like student loans, they're going to keep paying for it, so you could keep raising the tuition rates, kind of what they're doing with food. They could keep raising the food rates. But at this point, Cairo, there's no tax base there.
There's no real police. There's nothing, so everyone left. There's no means of profit. The hospital there is closed because, again, you have no tax base. Yeah, you have everyone, most likely 100% of people there, are on government assistance. But how can a community support itself when everyone is on government assistance? At this point, the only way to revitalize this area is to literally take all those people on government assistance, tear down their government apartments, and move them somewhere else. But, of course, that is not going to happen.
Hell, if you remember, over 10 years ago, there was a flood around Cairo. The federal government had an option of either saving the farmlands that actually made money in food or save the welfare cases in Cairo. And, of course, the federal government chose to save the welfare cases in Cairo. And all those farms lost thousands and, in some cases, millions. And those farmlands were flooded out. So nothing is going to be done with Cairo at this point.
Sadly, you hear from the community in these areas, or people who have moved on who blame it all, of course, on white people, well, yeah, they left. They packed up and left. You wanted a riot. You wanted to say we was kings. Everyone left, and you guys got to support your own community, and this is what happened.
✔️💯✔️✌🏽☺️ Home boy, you packed this with information. A lot of people wouldn't see or hear about on media outlets and in documentaries. It will make a great blog post.
Basically is a filler word and redundant just as you are.
Cities in post Industrial Revolution America are simply no longer needed (at least as they once were when an immense labor pool was needed) as most of the factories are gone, and one man can do the job of 100 with automation anyway. Something like a third to forty percent of urban office space is unoccupied. Cities exist now mostly for tourism, conventions, sportsball team revenue, probably a college or two...but mostly as centers of Democratic Party organizing and ballot harvesting along with a plethora of gov't jobs, Section 8 housing and sundry welfare programs (read: even _more_ government jobs).
As the cities decayed, the middle class fled to the suburbs taking their tax and spending money with them (and their political ideology, too unfortunately). Then the stranded poor working class followed them leaving behind a rotting corpse-the city. Then the middle class moved even farther away. So those suburbs began to decay.
Folks are running out of places to run to. At some point, they'll be forced to make a stand...or lie down and die and give up on the futures of their descendants. I suspect more likely the latter.
I remember when I was a kid we used to go to Memphis. That was the old route to Cairo and my father used to always say that town was racist and he would always gas up before he got to Cairo. Never want to stop there and when we did stop, you could feel the racism.
Is the arch that stands today the original one?
I'm from Wickliffe Ky, across the river from Cairo Il. Harper's resturant is a SLAMMING place to eat. They have huge egg rolls that are fresh and made in shop. But ya, other than the drive through liquor store, the town is a sh!thole. Shame really. Could have been a really cool town with a cool layout. Edit: Erosion from the river has left potholes on the riverside streets that let you see the water rushing beneath your feet! For you daring folks...
I recently saw a video about decorating towns in west Texas. Cairo actually looks prosperous and well off on comparison.
When I lived in KY in 1999, I said OMG i fell backwards 30 yrs. Finished my work contract and fled.
Thank you for this video.
send the over the border BIDEN people there.... looks like lots of room..
Once cars became a thing the river industry died
I drive through everything I go to nashville.
Do one about old black population towns before it was destroyed. other then that great work.
Are you referring to the towns that were purposely flooded?
@@aroundamerica that too. But more like blk towns that were taken over. Like rosewood and massacres. Learn about the town history before and after that would be very interesting
I willing definitely look into that! Thanks
Very informative, thanks 😎
Race does not kill... a Race's behavior is what is in question......
Judging people by their race? Should individuals be judged by their race?
It was destroyed due to the invention of automobile
Im sure the for 32 Billion sent to Ukraine wouldnt help.
Which part of the Ukraine aid do you think would work better for the residents, a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, or an Abrams Main Battle Tank?
Yeah, but throwing money at problems hoping that that will magically solve them is largely why the US has a $34 trillion national debt...and growing.
Haha I agree XD always hear how “oh we just do not have enough money to help Hawaii,
“We don’t have enough money to fix the roads in Oregon”
“We wish we can get rid of the homeless in California but there’s just not enough money”
I can go on all day
Ya the billions not millions but billions sent to Ukraine oh ya we got tons of money. And the media will tell u how much Ukraine is suffering. Which is only partly true. They basically chillin. Want to see a real war ? Look at Syria, Iraq, and right now Palestine, legit so many deaths. There’s no money to be made if USA helps. There’s money to be made with the greedy Ukrainian president. He’s legit scum. He just wants money, and he’s gotten so much money even from Putin way before the war. And they said after getting billions of $$ hey we need more money to help our people. What in the heck did u do with all that money we sent ?
Ukraine: 🤷♂️ lol
My dad lived there and served the military there, he always said how corrupt the government is, they get a ton and a ton of money but none if goes to the citizens, they all pocket it themselves and let the citizens suffer. But also brainwash them into thinking no the terrible state of things is only bcuz of Russia bcuz Russia never helps.
USA doing the same thing with blacks and whites. For no reason Ukrainians hate Russians and Russians hate Ukrainians.
Here blacks hate white and well idk would go as far as to say all whites hate blacks but definitely a lot do.
@@davidtrotman5990Your mother would be a starter
@@mrerick0363652 Are you a clone of an SNL parody of Sean Connery on Jeopardy?
70% Dr and Lawyers
It is pronounced Care-O, not Kay Ro. I live in IL and old. LOL. Otherwise I sure enjoyed your video. TY
CAIRO ILLINOIS CAIRO EGYPT . WHY?
Many many American city, town names are international with no link. There indeed three towns called Turkey, 3 different states.
This were the Migrants should go...and Build up the area again
No one's stopping them.
Where would they work?
@@petebondurant58they can do door dash from subway and open up smoke shops or do road construction. I’m half sarcastic
@@ingridjenner6946 The road construction jobs are usually municipal/union gigs. That leaves slaughterhouses, grain elevators and meth labs.
Interesting but not an unusual story or surprising story.
A sign of things to come if Rump gets elected!
Cairo, Illinois' inexorable decline has nothing to do with whatever person occupies the Oval Office. The State of Illinois is governed entirely by the Democratic Party, which enjoys an overwhelming majority in the Illinois General Assembly, holds every elected executive office, controls the State Supreme Court, and the Governorship.