Old Cahokia Courthouse Reopened

 

The Old Cahokia Courthouse reopened for the first time today since last December when former governor Rod Blagojevich closed numerous state historic sites.

The French originally built the structure as a home in 1740. The building became a courthouse in 1790. The city of Saint Louis disassembled the building and moved it to the site of the 1901 World's Fair for exhibition. The building again moved in 1906 to Chicago for a few decades. The building returned to its original foundation in the late 1930s as part of a Works Projects Administration (WPA) project.

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