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Originally Posted by thegoatman
some warehouse you can find in Cairo, Illinois.
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Cairo, IL would
KILL to have economic development activity like a warehouse of this scale.
Cairo is slowly whithering away to full ghost-town status.
1940: 14,407 | 6.5% (peak)
1950: 12,123 | −15.9%
1960: 9,348 | −22.9%
1970: 6,277 | −32.9%
1980: 5,931 | −5.5%
1990: 4,846 | −18.3%
2000: 3,632 | −25.1%
2010: 2,831 | −22.1%
2020: 1,733 | −38.8%
and Cairo's county, Alexander, led the entire nation last decade in population loss with a -36.4%.