Cairo, Illinois, a city at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. In 2011, the Army Corps of Engineers used an emergency plan to save the city from a record flood, but they waited so ...

URBANA – When faced with a choice between a deluge or a controlled deluge in May 2011 that would protect the city of Cairo, Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chose the latter by ...

Aerial footage shows severe flooding across the border of Cairo, Illinois, and Wickliffe, Kentucky, on, April 15. The filmer said: 'Aerial of the flooding around Cairo, IL and Wickliffe, KY. The ...

Cairo and the rest of Alexander County can ill afford major flooding. The area's non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at about 12 percent in March, 3 percent higher than the state average.

A flood wall protects Cairo up to 64 feet, but the corps fears that water pressure could compromise the wall and earthen levees that protect other parts of the city.

The big worry may be about the Mississippi River flooding Memphis right now, but the area outside of Cairo, Illinois, was pretty wet Saturday.

A legal battle tinged with racial overtones has erupted between officials in Illinois and Missouri over a plan to rescue Cairo by blasting a 2-mile breach in a Mississippi River levee and flooding ...

A large event will kick off the groundbreaking of a 3-D printed home in Cairo, Illinois. Skip to main content. You have permission ... The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in ...

: The westbound lanes of Interstate 24 have reopened following a multi-vehicle crash earlier Wednesday, according to ...

In the last days of April 2011, the mayor of Cairo, Illinois, told residents to get out. A spring flood had grown out of control, and the low-lying city of 2,800 at the junction of the Mississippi and ...