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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/UndyingCorn on 2025-01-01 19:07:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In the summer of 1967 an extended six years of racial unrest started in Cairo IL. At its height in 1969 there were 170 nights that gunfire was reported in the town. The population of Cairo would decline from 9,348 in 1960 to approximately 2,359 in 2016.