Thebes, Illinois

Thebes is a village in Thebes Precinct, Alexander County, Illinois, United States. The population was 208 at the 2020 census, down from 436 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1860 the county seat was moved to Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.