Cahokia, America’s Oldest City
Cahokia? Ask any number of people if they can tell you what Cahokia is and blank faces peer back at you. Never mind that a thousand years ago, Cahokia was a civilization more sophisticated and powerful than any other in the New World north of Mexico; or that it was one of the largest urban areas of the world, bigger than London at the time; few in America or elsewhere have heard of it. Located in southwestern Illinois, across from…