City in the United States
Alton
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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