Cahokia

[kuh-hoh-kee-uh]

noun

1. a city in SW Illinois.

Example Sentences

In this superb speculative novel, Spufford imagines that Manifest Destiny hit a roadblock in the Midwest: The region around St. Louis isn’t Missouri and Illinois but Cahokia, ruled by the Native tribe there.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

With ‘Cahokia Jazz,’ Francis Spufford tells an intricate, suspenseful and moving story that rises from the mists of America’s prehistory and morphs into an alternate version of America’s story.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Laura Miller spoke to Francis Spufford, author of the alternate-history mystery novel Cahokia Jazz, which explores those possibilities.

Read more on Slate

You may not have heard of Cahokia unless you hail from the Midwest.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

It’s 1922, and the middle American kingdom of Cahokia is thriving.

Read more on Los Angeles Times