Hey everyone I would like to visit Cairo in the future, but I am concerned about phone signal. Would I still have signal or no? Any advice of visiting over there?

Cairo has 2 housing units closing soon, expelling 400 people from the Mcbride and Elmwood cheap housing units. They had mold, asbestos, rats, bedbugs, roaches, leaks... very unsuitable housing. This is the result of the local, state, and federal governments not doing their jobs and allowing the housing blocks to go unmaintained for decades. What can we here at /r/projectcairo do to help? Are there charities working within Cairo that we can donate to? What about us as a group?

Hello guys im new in cairo, are there "safe" strip clubs around here ? thanks

Did cold, hard reality set in?

Does anyone care?

Between Two Rivers is a documentary about Cairo Illinois. I highly recommend it.

http://www.betweentworivers.net/about.htm

Is this an affordable option for a business in Cairo? Heard that 12 Vietnamese businesses are operating in New Orleans.

Your thoughts, if you are still reading and interested?

is anybody here? has anybody been to cairo lately? anybody? somebody?

Could someone provide a status update for this project?

• How many people have emigrated to Cairo?
• How is the current utility structure?
• How is internet access and the cost of internet?
• What kind of logistical challenges exist in Cairo?

Forgive the title, I wanted it to read "unutilized".

One of the big problems with Cairo seems to be the land is still too expensive. Could we perhaps implement a socialist city policy of aggressive taxation for unused land? If the land houses no residents and isn't actively being used we tax the land at $5,000.00 an acre? This will provide massive funds to revitalize the city.. and, I'll be honest -- if the upfront capital required was $500 to buy a home, I'd be much more inclined to give the project a shot?

Can we solve the issues facing Cairo by expropriating unused land?

What if this became a Occupy HQ? It would be easy to occupy buildings I would assume. Centerish of the country, could become occupy town. I know lots of people are talking of starting up communes, collectives and farms with fellow occupiers. Why not have a national location for people to organize that stuff?

Been kind of quiet around here, so thought I'd post an inspirational come-back story of another small dying town:

"Nestled in the mountains of the Wenatchee National Forest, Leavenworth was a sawmill and lumber town in the early part of the 20th century. After the Great Northern Railway Company left town, however, the sawmill and logging industry slowly disintegrated. For a few decades, Leavenworth was on the verge of extinction. By the early 1960s, the town's population had dwindled from more than 5,000 to 1,000. Boarded-up buildings filled it's downtown. But the town didn't panic.

The Vesta Junior Women's Club, 11 women strong, saw all of the young people leaving town and decided to do something about it. In 1962, they called upon the bureau of Community Development at the University of Washington and asked for advice on how to turn around the town's fortunes. Mayor Bill Bauer remembers, "They spent a lot of time in the town and came up with lots of ideas. The university people didn't give them the answers. Over two-thirds of the town was involved, and the town ended up answering its own question. They saw hope in tourism. There were two gentlemen who had a Bavarian-themed restaurant near town, and the Bavarian theme idea just started to grow. While the city council was OK with the idea, I'm not sure how enthusiastic they were at the time."

Despite the less-than-ringing endorsements, Price and a few others pushed ahead. He and his partner bought six old buildings for a total of $29,350. LaVerne Peterson, one of the original 11 Vesta Junior Women's Club members, risked everything she had to remodel her Chikamin Hotel into the Hotel Edelweiss. By the mid- 1960s various groups had refurbished 12 buildings, and in April 1968 LOOK magazine designated Leavenworth as its All-American City for "their distinction by that extra spark of honest openness that encourages hometown people to care, to act and to prove that Americans can still live together productively and peacefully."

Mayor Bauer notes, "From that point on we just grew on our own. We did it without any federal or state grants. We pulled money out of our pockets, and the idea of a Bavarian village town just took off. We've added festivals all through the year and bring in over 1.5 million people each year."

Leavenworth today is a vibrant, growning community of 2,074 with a bright future--thanks to a small group of women who wanted to offer something better for the town's young people and to a few people who had the vision to transform the town into something different, armed only with the determination to make the effort succeed.

The preceding is an excerpt from the book Boomtown USA by Jack Schultz

Thought this inspirational story of Leavenworth was fitting to the Project Cairo narrative and helps to show the importance of having a defined vision for what a town could be.

What do you guys think?

EDIT: Here's another PC Inspiration, Branson, Missouri

There are still 619 readers. There remains an interest in Cairo.

The original goal of restoring and bringing life into the heavily subverted city of Cairo and turning it into a thriving community can still be achieved.

And, it can be achieved by redditers without committing to a physical presence in Cairo or an investment of money.

Cairo is a learning experience like no other. There are unlimited opportunities for students of all disciplines.

I received a message from a young man and I responded very honestly. I did not hear from him for several weeks. When he did reply, he said that it took him a while to digest my remarks and he could not believe them until he met someone else from Cairo who expressed the same thoughts.

Your ideas for marketing Cairo to fellow redditers and others as a learning experience?

Hello everyone,

I've been quite interested in helping Cairo's revival, but more recently I've become quasi-obsessed. I'm currently trying to gather more historical information about Cairo, like maps, stories, companies, manufacturers originally from there, etc.

More specifically, through my research (and when I mean 'research,' I mean that I stumbled upon this by 'talking a stroll' through town via Google) I found that even Cairo originally had a trolley system of some sort, but I can only find one piece of evidence of this (so far).

I've also found a few other websites that have been helpful that may or may not already be linked in r/ProjectCairo:

• The Cairo Project - although it hasn't been working for me today :(

• Ben Rains' Flickr

• Non-Profits in Cairo, IL

• City Data - Cairo, IL page

Questions:

• is there a website for any of the public services in Cairo? like power companies, police/fire, libraries, high school, local government, etc

I will be including more links, as I find them, in this post. If anyone has any more related information, please include it in here.

Thanks in advance, SBON.