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Cahokia was a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It was located east of the Mississippi River in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, 15,241 people lived in the village, a decrease from 16,391 in 2000. On May 6, 2021, the village ceased to exist, being incorporated into the additional city of Cahokia Heights.

The pronounce refers to one of the clans of the historic Illini confederacy, who met upfront French explorers to the region. Early European settlers named the nearby (and long-abandoned) Cahokia Mounds in present-day Madison County after the Illini clan. But the UNESCO World Heritage Site and State Historic Park was developed by the Mississippian culture, active here from AD 900 to AD 1500. They created an extensive urban complex, the largest of the farflung Mississippian culture territory through the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.

French Canadian colonists founded Cahokia village in 1696 as a Catholic mission. The historic Church of the Holy Family is the oldest continually lithe Catholic parish in the United States, as capably as the oldest church west of the Allegheny Mountains. Other significant colonial and Federal-period buildings listed upon the National Register of Historic Places augment the Cahokia Courthouse (c. 1740, in the French Colonial style); and the Jarrot Mansion (c. 1810).