Cahokia, Illinois
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 Old Cahokia Courthouse in Cahokia
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Illinois |
| County | St. Clair |
| Coordinates | 38°33′43″N 90°10′22″W / 38.56194°N 90.17278°WCoordinates: 38°33′43″N 90°10′22″W / 38.56194°N 90.17278°W |
| Area | 9.90 sq mi (26 km2) |
| - land | 9.40 sq mi (24 km2) |
| - water | 0.50 sq mi (1 km2) |
| Population | 16,400 (2000) |
| Density | 1,705.8/sq mi (659/km2) |
| Founded | 1699 |
| Mayor | Curtis McCall Jr. |
| Timezone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Postal code | 62206 |
| Area code | 618 |
 Location in St. Clair County and the state of Illinois.
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Cahokia is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is part of Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 15,241, a decline from 16,391 in 2000. The name is a reference to one of the clans of the historic Illini confederacy, who were encountered by early French explorers to the region. It was founded as a French Canadian mission in 1696.
Early European settlers also named Cahokia Mounds after the Illini. This is an extensive prehistoric Mississippian culture urban complex located to the north in present-day Collinsville in Madison County. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a State Historic Park.
The village of Cahokia is the home of significant colonial and Federal-period buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Cahokia Courthouse (c 1740), in the French Colonial style, Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia) (c. 1697), and the Jarrot Mansion (c 1810).
While the Europeans also named the Cahokia Mounds site to the north after the Illini group, archeologists have determined that the earthwork mounds complex was built by the Mississippian culture, an earlier, potentially unrelated indigenous people. The city site reached its peak in the 13th century and was abandoned centuries before European contact. The Cahokia Native Americans did not coalesce as a group and live in the Illinois area until closer to the time of French contact.
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