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Alton

Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St.

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The place

Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri. Its population was 25,676 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the River Bend area in the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.

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Getting to Alton

Airports
St. Louis Lambert (STL), 25 km
  • Chicago → Alton
    393 km · quickest by air, 5h 35m · $230–340
  • Indianapolis → Alton
    360 km · quickest by road, 5h 44m · $31–43
  • Louisville → Alton
    391 km · quickest by road, 6h 26m · $36–49
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No local-transport research exists yet for Alton

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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