Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 269,282. The county seat is Edwardsville, and its largest city is Granite City.
East Alton is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 6,301 at the 2010 census.
Roxana is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,542 at the 2010 census.
Wood River is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,424 according to the 2013 census estimate.
West Alton is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 522 at the 2010 census. It is located at the tip of the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
U.S. Route 67 is a major north–south U.S. highway which extends 1,560-mile-long (2,511 km) in the Central United States. The southern terminus of the route is at the United States-Mexico border in Presidio, Texas, where it continues south as Mexican Federal Highway 16 upon crossing the Rio Grande. The northern terminus is at U.S. Route 52 in Sabula, Iowa.
Alton College is a sixth form college located in Alton, Hampshire, England. As well as being a sixth form, the college provides an adult education service to the local population as well as catering for students with disabilities from nearby Treloar College. It was built in 1978 and was one of the first institutions in the UK to be a purpose-built sixth form college.
The Piasa or Piasa Bird is a Native American dragon depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans on bluffs (cliffsides) above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois at present-day Alton, Illinois. The original Piasa illustration no longer exists; a newer 20th-century version, based partly on 19th-century sketches and lithographs, has been placed on a bluff in Alton, Illinois, several hundred yards upstream from its origin. The location of the present-day mural is at 38.898055, -90.19915. The limestone rock quality on the new site is unsuited for holding an image, and the painting must be regularly restored. The original site of the painting was a high-quality layer of lithographic limestone, which was predominantly quarried away in the late 1870s by the Mississippi Lime Company.
Metro East is a region in Illinois that comprises the eastern suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It encompasses five Southern Illinois counties in the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area. The region's most populated city is Belleville, with 45,000 residents. The Metro East is the second largest urban area in Illinois after the Chicago metropolitan area and, as of the 2000 census, the population of the Metro East statistical area is 599,845 residents, a figure that has risen above 700,000 in 2010. The significant growth in the Metro East is mainly due to people in smaller outlying towns in Illinois moving to the area for better economic/job opportunities.
KLLT is an FM radio station licensed to Columbia, Illinois, better known as "ALT 104.9". Owned and operated by iHeartMedia, the station airs an alternative rock format for the greater St. Louis, Missouri Metropolitan Area. Its transmitter is located in the Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, and operates from studios in St. Louis just south of Forest Park.
The Battle of Chillicothe was part of the western theater of the American Revolutionary War.
Shurtleff College was a Baptist liberal arts school in Alton, Illinois until 1957.
WVSS is a radio station licensed to Menomonie, Wisconsin. The station is part of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and airs WPR's "NPR News and Classical Network", consisting of classical music and news and talk programming. WVSS also broadcasts local news and programming from studios at the Wisconsin Public Broadcasting regional center in Eau Claire.
Alton Community Unit School District #11 in Madison County, Illinois is a public school district consisting of seven elementary schools, one high school, one middle school, an early childhood center, and an alternative education school.
The Watershed Trail is a 4.7-mile long (7.6 km) rail trail from Roxana to Edwardsville, Illinois, that follows an old section of Illinois Terminal Railroad tracks.
The Moolah Temple, formally the Moolah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, is a historic building located at 3821 Lindell, in St. Louis, Missouri. It was built in 1912 for use as a meeting place, and is "a brick and tile building in the Moorish style.
FC Adrenaline is an American professional indoor soccer team, founded in 2007.
The Alton Museum of History and Art, sometimes known as the Robert Wadlow Museum, in Alton, Illinois was founded in 1971 as a not for profit organization. It is located in Loomis Hall, named for Rev. Hubbel Loomis, on the grounds of the former Rock Spring Alton Baptist Seminary established by missionary John Mason Peck, later renamed Shurtleff college, and presently the home of the Southern IL University School of Dental Medicine. The building was constructed as the original chapel/classroom of the seminary c.1820 and the sanctuary was modified in the early 1900s to be a two-story building with a rear classroom and laboratory addition. The building is one of the oldest structures still being used for educational purposes in the state.
Old Jamestown is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 19,184 at the 2010 census. Old Jamestown is north of the city of St. Louis and borders the Missouri River.
The Alton Square Mall is a 2-level, 634,181 square feet (58,917.3 m2) enclosed shopping mall located in Alton, Illinois. It was originally developed by May Centers, Inc. - the mall development arm of May Department Stores - and opened in 1978. Its current anchors are Ross Dress for Less and JCPenney. Sears was a third anchor, but closed in 2012. The Sears site was later made into an Illinois Wholesale Furniture store, which is now closed. Macy's - which had opened as Famous-Barr converted to Macy's in 2006. - was a fourth anchor until it closed in 2017.
