Chicago American

Flood waters have begun to recede in Southern Illinois in and around Cairo following concentrated efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and others, but plenty of work remains to be done. (More info and background here: http://thesouthern.com/news/national/article_56caf9fc-feea-5bb3-9f49-1f85096096ca.html)  In an interesting coincidence, Illinois Times editor Fletcher Farrar recently found some old newspapers from 1937 […]