https://ia600209.us.archive.org/6/items/bureauofethnology00thomrich/bureauofethnology00thomrich.pdf
This book/ pdf above will give you more information on why the solar eclipse formation hits the certain region of the U.S.There are so many mounds with artifacts and skeletons buried beneath them. p. 47-48 and on. Please read or skim. It has a lot of pictures too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS1tywwG6rY- Watch this for the a great breakdown of the smiley. face and sad face and Brother Casey breakdown of the New Egypt in the eclipse along with the mounds from Enter the Stars.
Sister Naema video on the ghost towns in Illinois. These articles below are additions.
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/il-cairo/2/
http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/05/camp-at-cairo-illinois.html