6. MUDDY (Southern) Built as a coal-mining town. Until 2002, it had the smallest post office in the U.S. Population in 2000 was 78.
7. SANDWICH (Northern) Named by politician "Long John" Wentworth who named it after his hometown of Sandwich, New Hampshire. Has one of the oldest county fairs in Illinois (1888). Daily crowds of 100,000 and top days attracting 200,000.
8. RANSOM (Northern) Planned community from 1876. named for Civil War General Thomas E.G. Ransom. He was born in Vermont, but lived in Illinois as a young man.
9. STANDARD (Northern) 2010 population 220. Started as a mining town.
10. CAIRO (Southernmost city in state) People who love there pronounce it care-o. Outsiders like Egypt's capital. At confluence of Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
--RoadDog
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