The legend in Southern Illinois was that when Illinois was first established,
its breadbasket was in the deep southern end of the state, and up in the cold
and frozen north, that city that had little chance of succeeding, namely
Chicago, to get food, they had to go south to Southern Illinois.
Hi John
Re: It was like going down to Egypt. Cairo, where the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers met, was expected to be one of the greatest American cities, and several
other little towns in Southern Illinois were named after Egyptian cities --
such as Karnak and Thebes.
I saw a program on the
