CAIRO

a city of Dlinois, the county of Alexander co. It is situated at junction of the Ohio and Mi i ippi and is on the Illinois Central; Southern; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, and St. Louis and other railCairo is 150 miles 8.E. of St. It is an important trade center southern area of Illinois and it has with all the river points. During days of important commercial traffic Mi i ippi, Cairo was one of the important ports on the river. It important industrially and has daily weekly newspapers, banks, etc. 1920, 15,203.