Cahokia was a robust economic and cultural center for the Mississippian people. They built hundreds of massive mounds but suddenly left the city in the 1300s. Built from an estimated 22 million ...

Cahokia Mounds was the center of the North American mound-building culture, reaching its height by about C.E. 1200. However, within 200 years, the city and surrounding villages were largely ...

“There's some talk in southern Illinois as we looked at Cahokia Mounds and the charters for Kaskaskia and maybe trying to broker into a federal park system in the revenue that could bring in ...

Pre-Columbia, Cahokia Mounds was the largest, most complex urban center north of Mexico. Between 1050 and 1200 CE, Cahokia was larger than London with nearly 20,000 residents. The reasons for ...

A loss to Salem in last season’s final league game cost the Roxana Shells their first Cahokia Conference baseball championship in 2024. The Wildcats could not deny the Shells the conference ...

Cahokia Mounds, in Collinsville, is home to what was the largest pre-Columbian site north of Mexico. The site was abandoned before Europeans arrived on the continent, but at the height of its ...

COLLINSVILLE — A movement to designate Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site as part of the National Park System may be picking up again. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have ...

Extensive trade routes once passed through what is now Kansas City, linking the inhabitants of the massive Cahokia Mounds region in western Illinois near St. Louis with Kansas City and points ...

Only the Indian Mound Motel gives any hint that the road bisects something more than underdeveloped farmland. This is the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, a United Nations World Heritage Site on a ...