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Alton, Illinois
Alton
is a city on the
Mississippi River
in
Madison County
,
Illinois
,
United States
, about north of
St. Louis, Missouri
. The population was 27,865 at the
2010 census
. It is a part of the
Metro-East
region of the
Greater St. Louis
metropolitan area in
Southern Illinois
. It is famous for its limestone bluffs along the river north of the city, for its role preceding and during the
American Civil War
, and as the hometown of jazz musician
Miles Davis
and
Robert Wadlow
, the tallest known person in history. It was the site of the last
Abraham Lincoln
and
Stephen Douglas
debate in October 1858. The former state penitentiary here was used during the war to hold up to 12,000 Confederate prisoners of war.
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