But once we looked at the numbers, they were staggering. At this meeting we thought he was talking crazy. “ asked us to look at how our communities were dying year by year, falling apart,” McCall Jr. reached out to the mayors of the three towns. He was also a proponent of the merger campaign, which passed with 61% voter approval in the November 2020 elections.Īround three years ago, McCall Sr. His father, Curtis McCall Sr., is the Centreville Township supervisor. And I had to think of the people who elected me,” McCall Jr. But my wife and son are a part of this community. I was the first Black mayor, I worked hard to get here.
“It was a difficult decision but in my heart, necessary. That’s why he supported the merger plan, even though he knew it would put him out of a job.
is the 39-year-old mayor of Cahokia, and he’s still fighting for his community’s survival. And if the gamble pays off, it may serve as a blueprint for other American towns struggling with population loss.Ī FATHER, A SON, AND A PLAN FOR THE FUTUREĬurtis McCall Jr. The towns’ leaders hope the merger will be enough to save them. This spring, they will disband and form the brand-new city of Cahokia Heights. Tiny Alorton also suffers from blighted properties and a declining population.īut now, a big plan has finally been put in place to fix the three towns’ woes. USA Today named Centreville the “Poorest town in America” in 2019. Two nearby small towns have had similar struggles. However, Cahokia isn’t alone in its plight.
You have a town of people of color, old, poor, disabled, a lot of people struggle every day to get by and the schools are a mess. Norris-Landry is also an administrator on the Cahokia Cares Facebook page, meaning she’s had time to think about how the changing times have affected both the community and herself. “When you take people and grind them down for years, they are too tired to fix things. “I see it in people my age and older - they were young in the 1980s when it was starting to fall apart,” Norris-Landry, who runs an after-school science club for kids, told the Click. But these changes aren’t new: The town has been on the decline for the past 50 years, when Cahokia’s population plunged from 25,000 to 13,500 in just two generations. The end result is not necessarily super challenging but it is really fun and accessible.(CAHOKIA, Illinois) - Arianna Norris-Landry, 60, moved to the small Illinois town of Cahokia six years ago, when her son went there to open a prepaid-wireless-phone store.ĭuring that time, she’s seen the impact that population loss, infrastructure decay, and environmental degradation has had on the community. Merge Town! Is a smart combination of the traditional idle clicker and puzzle games, Triple Town-style. The money you earn can be invested directly into buying bigger homes so you don’t have to waste time combining tiny homes in order to create bigger ones. The properties you’ve built earn you money by the second. Following this plan, you can eventually work your way up to building mansions. Every few seconds you’ll get a new tiny house, which you can combine with another tiny house to build a bigger one. The gameplay is really simple: if you combine two buildings of the same kind, you get a better building. The better the buildings, the more money they’ll bring in. Merge Town! is a mix between a puzzle and a clicker that challenges you to build a city little by little by combining the buildings on a board.
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