A March 14, 1925, article in the Alton Evening Telegraph announced that a meeting of Alton sportsmen had been called for the ...

A horse is safe after being rescued from unsafe conditions on a railroad bridge over a stream in Alton. Alton firefighters ...

Officials were called Sunday to help a horse that was stuck on a railroad bridge over a stream. The train company was ...

Firefighters in Maine had to stop train traffic on a set of tracks when a horse wandered out onto a railroad bridge over a ...

Well, on Sunday, firefighters in Alton, Bradford and Lagrange were called on to help a wayward horse. The horse was on a ...

What could've been a terrifying scenario in the town of Lagrange on Sunday, March 16, ended up turning out okay.

The Bluff Line Railroad, established in the 1890s, faced natural disasters and ceased operations in 1930.

The last interurban car left the Illinois Terminal Railroad's Alton depot in March 1953, marking the end of the electric car ...

The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, located at 1 Confluence Way in East Alton, will host a morning and evening Frog Watch Community Science Training at 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on ...

Abdul-Rasheed says, "If we walk 500 feet, there's another portion of that Underground Railroad that also ushered people from Missouri through Alton." The bravery of the town’s early families is ...

Between 1850 and 1860, Black residents made up nearly 40% of Oakville’s population — a significant presence shaped by both freedom seekers escaping slavery in the United States and established ...