2,800 ghosts?

Say, Cairo, you've got peculiar trouble, right there in River City as a national travel website declared Cairo a "ghost town." Really? It's not abandoned with 2,800 citizens. What a tourist attraction it must be if 2,800 ghosts are walking around taking care of business!

One such ghost must be the mayor, who ought to take offense despite the amusing absurdity that my Cairo (I was born there in 1928) is a "creepy ghost town." No doubt it is just growing older like me. But I'm not dead yet, and neither is Cairo, whose lovely Magnolia Manor proudly stands reflecting the climate of days long gone. There is so much to remember about sweet ol' Cairo, Illinois.

Alice Davis, Mundelein, Illinois