For Memorial Day 2025, the 20th Annual Memorial Day Sunset Ceremony was held at the Alton National Cemetery in Alton ...

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In 2012, he was 21.5 inches tall. The tallest male was Robert Pershing Wadlow from Alton, Illinois. He stood at 107.1 inches tall. It’s estimated that 80% of your height could be determined by ...

Alton embraces its reputation as “one of America’s most haunted small towns” with various ghost tours exploring reportedly haunted locations while sharing tales of past residents who apparently ...

Enter Alton, Illinois – the riverside charmer that delivers big memories ... Photo credit: Dr. Mohammad Shamsuddoha The Robert Wadlow statue commemorates Alton’s famous “Giant,” standing at 8 feet 11 ...

Football schedules for the 2025 season are starting to be announced all across The Prairie State and High School On SI Illinois will share these as we see them. Recently the East Alton-Wood ...

The world’s tallest man, 8-foot, 11-inch Robert Wadlow, came from Alton, and is recognized by the Guinness Book ... part of Priester’s childhood growing up in McHenry County on the Illinois-Wisconsin ...

The town I'm talking about is Alton, Illinois, and it's located along the Mississippi ... Alton was the site of the final debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Robert Wadlow, the world’s ...

Megan Zilm of Godfrey dances with her 9-month-old daughter Lucy during the Robert Wadlow Birthday Party at the Old Bakery Beer Co. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. Alton area residents enjoyed a tall ...

Robert Pershing Wadlow was known as the 'Alton Giant' having been born in Alton, Illinois in 1918. Aged 22 at the time of his death in 1940, he was measured at 8 feet 11.1 inches (2.72 meters).

Robert Wadlow's cause of height was ascribed to pituitary gigantism ... Sixteen pallbearers carried his coffin as thousands of people came to Alton, Illinois, to mourn his death. His family sealed his ...