#Cairo Illinois

[agelessphotography]

Cairo, Illinois from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series, Danny Lyon, 1962

#photography #vintage photography #vintage #black and white photography #american #1960s #danny lyon #illinois #cairo illinois #1962 #civil rights #civil rights movement

[deadmotelsusa]

Abandoned motels in Cairo, Illinois

#cairo #illinois #abandoned #before and after #deadmotelsusa

[20th-century-railroading]

M&O train, engine number 477, engine type 2-8-2 Northbound freight train; 45 MPH. Photographed: near Cairo, Ill., August 13, 1940.

#m&o #mobile & ohio #1940 #trains #freight train #history #cairo #illinois

[unteriors]

Holbrook Avenue, Cairo, Illinois.

#Cairo #Illinois

[bright-and-burning]

also i’m realizing i should’ve made a diff priv twitter when i got Really into f1 bc now i am walking the fine line of being normal abt f1 to my . ~120 irls (including a few regular degular f1 fans) vs talking truly nonsense abt f1

in other news i saw a QT on a video of charles and his gf that was like. “i’m in bumfuck europe studying with greasy hair and she’s getting driven around monaco in a ferrari” and i burst out laughing bc my first thought was that they were calling all of europe bumfuck and my second thought was monaco… is in europe…

#as someone from the midwest i feel like using bumfuck is cultural appropriation /j #wait i just googled it it literally originated in chicago LOL #it’s abt cairo illinois for being the furthest from urban living by both distance and lifestyle LMFAOOOOO #that’s crazy imagine being the town that they made up bumfuck for #no shade but i would call very very few places in europe bumfuck #bc i feel like it’s relatively easy to get to urban centers from most places #relative as in in comparison to america. and esp places EYE would call bumfuck #caveat i’m an american in urbanism so like admittedly my impressions of europe are heavily focused on the rail system yall lucky fuckers hav

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

A post mentioned Peoria, IL as the cheapest place to buy a house in the US right now, and I figured they'd controlled for population, maybe just excluded places under a certain #. Surely there are very rural places where it's cheaper. So I'm having a look at realtor.com's stats on different cities median list prices and avg per square foot.

Biggest city near me: $400k list price, ~$200/sq ft Small town near me: Right about the same, interestingly

Peoria, IL: $130k, $80/sq ft - That is a lot cheaper! Detroit, MI: $80k, $71/sq ft Flint, MI: $70k, $64/sq ft

But I thought, ok yeah nobody wants to live in Peoria, haha of course not. But it's not the worst shithole in Illinois. What is, and what's it like there? First thing I thought of was Cairo, and

Cairo, IL: $45k median list price, $11 per square foot. ELEVEN.

The population is under 2,000, it's very poor, and not taken care of. Good luck finding work to keep up with your mortgage payments. But if your goal is just to buy a cheap house, damned if you couldn't do it there. There's some nice old ones, too, and river views.

#house prices #going down to cairo #illinois #i'm not looking for the highest or lowest just comparing places i know about #it's surprisingly consistent across larger & smaller populations near here #and several smaller places I know in IL #you gotta get un-commute-ably far from a population center to get a deal #or in ~crime ridden ghetto~ city #(rolling my eyes strongly as I type that)

[humblevictory]

#illinois #mississippi #river #towns #america #chester #popeye #cairo #east #dubuque #moline

[cannolipony]

The ghost town chapter continues

#cairo #illinois #ghost town

[obtener2]

When Confederates captured Fort Sumter, Illinoisans from all walks of life rushed to defend the Union. In the absence of a centralized recruitment system, Illinois communities raised troops ad hoc. Community-based mobilization met the War Department’s initial quota for six Illinois regiments within five days, and thousands of volunteers continued to pour into recruitment camps. Amid fears that Confederates in Missouri might raid southern Illinois, most troops were stationed at Camp Defiance, located at the southern-most tip of Illinois at Cairo.

A Family and Nation Under Fire #iBooks https://goo.gl/SAVc8A #nook https://goo.gl/DSQXGu #Amazon: https://goo.gl/A3brGd KSU Press http://goo.gl/Z3z4Xs

#cairo #illinois #american civil war #levee

[scary-senpai]

You can take the girl out of the Goth but you can’t take the Goth out of the … girl?

#off topic Tuesday #okay that didn’t entirely make sense #Neil gaiman understood how *truly* fuckin’ weird the Midwest can be #I mean Saul Bellow kind of got it but mostly the crippling sense of existential angst and disconnection #Neil certainly had a bit more fun #anyway #looking forward to visiting good old Cairo (Illinois)

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Olga (Ollie) Burgoyne

Olga “Ollie” Burgoyne, also known as Ollie Burgoyne-Calloway, was a singer and dancer specializing in Russian and other ethnic dances. She was also an actress and businesswoman who gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance and left her mark as one of the most influential African American dancers and choreographers of that time.

Ollie Burgoyne was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 13, 1879. She was part Russian and part Creole. Ollie’s cousin, Ida Forsain, toured Russia and specialized in Cossack dancing. Influenced by Forsain, Burgoyne debuted at age 17 in John Isham’s Oriental America nightclub in Chicago in 1896. In 1901, at age 22, she embarked on an eight-year tour of Europe (Germany, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Hungary, and Russia) with seven singing and dancing girls known as the Louisiana Amazon Guards.

In 1903, Burgoyne briefly returned to the United States and joined the cast of the operetta In Dahomey, which was the first African American musical to be performed on Broadway. After her performance, Burgoyne formed Duo Eclatant with partner Asher Watts. She also founded the Burgoyne Musical Company.

During her years in Russia (1904-1914), Burgoyne performed in many prestigious venues, including the Krestovskiy Garden Amusement Park (St. Petersburg) and the Aumont Theater (Moscow). She also made side trips to Odessa in what is now Ukraine, Athens, Greece, Istanbul, Turkey, and Cairo, Egypt. She opened the Maison Creole lingerie store in downtown St. Petersburg (Russia), where she employed a staff of 27. In August 1914, while Burgoyne was vacationing in Marienbad, Austria, World War I broke out, and she was unable to return to Russia and thus lost her businesses and properties there.

Between 1914 and 1929, Burgoyne continued to tour mainly in western Europe. Her specialties were Brazilian, Spanish, and Russian dances, which she mastered while traveling. She briefly returned to the United States during this period, where she performed in New York City, Chicago nightclubs, and Harlem’s Lafayette Theater. In 1925, Burgoyne produced two dance revues, Darktown Strutters, and Harlem Strutters, in New York. She also appeared in ten Broadway productions between 1926 and 1937.

In 1931, Ollie Burgoyne was named one of the eight major dancers and choreographers of the Harlem Renaissance, part of an elite group that also included Hemsley Winfield, Edna Guy, Randolph Sawyer, Asadata Dafora, Katherine Dunham, Charles Williams, and Pearl Primus. In April 1936, when Burgoyne was 57 years old, she appeared in the play Mississippi Rainbow, performed at the Lafayette Theater. In the later years of her life, Burgoyne taught dance and worked periodically in the film industry, starring in movies such as Laughing (1930) and The Timid Ghost (1937). With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Ollie Burgoyne died on April 2, 1974, in Oxnard, California, at the age of 95.

#historical #actress #black history month

[mgenchanted]

Cairo Illinois

#photography #outdoors #urban and rural #urban exploring #urbex #urban exploration #abandoned places #abandoned #abandoned buildings

[dispelzine]

Walls / Cairo, Illinois.

#rephotography #architecture #signs #americana #reprise

[kvetchlandia]

Uncredited Photographer Civil Rights Activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Member and Staff Photographer Danny Lyon (left) Talking with Jet Magazine Reporter Larry Still, Selma, AL 1964

"I first want to make the point about those years — that people forget what the feeling in the country was, because history gets changed over time, and it gets changed mostly because we see it on television and in movies, which are distorting and reductive. People in general were not crazy about the civil rights movement. They didn’t all say, 'This is wonderful!' Most people said, 'They’re breaking the law. There’s violence. Why can’t the Negroes just be happy down there.' That kind of thing. There were demonstrations at the time in Cairo, Illinois, which is about four-hundred miles from where I was in Chicago. This is like you listening in Manhattan, and something was happening on the Canadian border, not really so far away. A Jewish student named Linda Perlstein, one of my classmates, had been arrested in Cairo. And another thing was that, as a campus photographer, I’d taken pictures of the first civil-rights sit-in at the university. It was mostly white kids, and one of the leaders was Bernie Sanders, who was my friend Ira’s roommate. And I photographed that, but I remember thinking at the time, 'This is not the real thing. The real thing is in the South.' The other factor, if I’m being honest, is that my motorcycle had broken down, and I couldn’t ride it and take girls on rides, which was what I did. It was summer and I had nothing to do, so I got contact information from Linda Perlstein, and I hitchhiked down. I met John Lewis the very next morning."

[og2lit]

LA Task - S.C.

•What is your full name? Santana Isaiah Cross

• Where and when were you born? Chicago, Illinois. 4/10/02

• Who are/were your parents? (Know their names, occupations, personalities, etc.)

Skylar Cross; Gym owner and physical therapist. She's loving, nurturing, passionate, loves hard. A go getter and great business mindset. Financial advisor to her son to protect his assets before he turns pro. Makes 🔥 cakes from scratch.

Cairo Jennings; Recently retired pro sports athlete currently works as a reoccurring analyst with ESPN. Stoic, old school mentality, provider, gym rat. Stubborn and headstrong, manipulative, controlling.

• Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?

Only child, that he knows

• Where do you live now, and with whom? Describe the place and the person/people.

UCLA campus apartments, by himself. Open space, hypebeast, got some color, tv mounted, surround sound.

• What is your occupation?

Student full time, brand ambassador

• Write a full physical description of yourself. You might want to consider factors such as: height, weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks.

6'2, semi muscular, brown skin, tattoos all over his torso and legs, african american, street casual, locs at his shoulder.

• To which social class do you belong?

Middle upper class for now

• Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?

Nope

• Are you right- or left-handed?

Right

• What does your voice sound like?

Raspy, Midwest accent, husky

• What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently?

"Mane, Folk, Gang"

• What do you have in your pockets?

Tictac, phone, wallet

• Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics?

No

PART 2: GROWING UP

•How would you describe your childhood in general?

He had a solid childhood. With the child support hush money his mom received every month from her former lover it was enough to cover the mortgage so the rest of Skylar's money went to the small bills and splurging on her son.

• What is your earliest memory?

5 years old, running in the backyard with a little car. His father Cairo comes out to the backyard with Skylar and hands Santana a mini basketball before leaving. It was the only time he saw his father face to face.

• How much schooling have you had?

He's in college.

• Did you enjoy school?

Enjoys what it offers and how he can capitalize.

• Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities?

Copying his favorite players moves until he perfected it and created his own. Kobe Bryant and Jamal Crawford.

• While growing up, did you have any role models? If so, describe them.

His mother, she taught him everything.

• While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family?

Had cousins that he got from his mother's friends and two blood cousins that he stays in contact with to this day. They used to get in trouble all the time running the streets.

• As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A firefighter

• As a child, what were your favorite activities?

Playing monster trucks and doctor

• As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display?

Lots of energy, couldn't stay still, OCD

• As a child, were you popular? Who were your friends, and what were they like?

Since he played ball in middle school he was known by a lot of people in the state area.

• When and with whom was your first kiss?

13, Courtney Wright in the closet.

• Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?

No, 17 Tamia Blake

PART 3: PAST INFLUENCES

•What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?

Overhearing a phone call of his parents fighting over him.

• Who has had the most influence on you?

His mother and Kobe Bryant

• What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Getting his first NIL deal before he graduated high school.

• What is your greatest regret?

Not retiring his mouth when he had the opportunity to do so.

• What is the most evil thing you have ever done?

Cheated on someone

• Do you have a criminal record of any kind?

No

• When was the time you were the most frightened?

Almost got his car stolen in Chicago when he turned 18

• What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you?

Getting my beans caught in my zipper at school

• If you could change one thing from your past, what would it be, and why?

Cairo Jennings

• What is your best memory?

Back to back state championships in high school

• What is your worst memory?

Finding out his mother has breast cancer

#character development #SIC Dev #LA Task 100

[joeinct]

Cairo, Illinois, Photo by Andrew Borowiec, 1985-98

#Andrew Borowiec