Historical Alton Illinois. This is a beautiful city that has seen many events! This is the home to Elijah P. Lovejoy, Robert Wadlow and the first of Illinois penitentiary (later to become a civil war prison). In recent years Alton saw a major historical flood in 1993. You may notice the red line painted on the white building showing "welcome to Alton Illinois" This flood was major in the sense that it destroyed hundreds of levees along the Mississippi river and caused 15 billion dollars in debt. In even more recent history in 2019 there was another flood. Thanks to many changes in flood prevention this flood was not as damaging. It could easily have been as bad as the flood in 1993. Present day Alton has a bustling downtown and a new amphitheater on the river front.
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