Cairo, Illinois: Future City
A little hamlet with an official green highway sign. It has spectacularly failed to live up to its optimistic name.
- Address:
- US-51, Cairo, IL
- Directions:
- I-57 exit 1. Turn east/south onto US-51/IL-3. Drive one mile. You'll see the green Future City sign on the right.
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Just north of the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, near Cairo.
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The little hamlet of Future City was founded as a suburb of Cairo over 100 years ago, but has spectacularly failed to live up to its optimistic name.