That music of the river was the focus of Saturday’s Mississippi Meanderings, sponsored by the Mississippi River Water Trail Association at the National Great Rivers Museum in Alton. Zak Rivers ...

A once popular festival held at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will be revived in Alton, Illinois, this summer. The Mississippi River Festival will return featuring one night of music ...

National Great Rivers Museum in East Alton is promoting “all things icy” along the Mississippi River during its fourth annual ...

Save Our Eagles, a program from the Illinois Department of Natural ... one mature -- rest on top of an iced over Mississippi River near Alton, Ill. on Jan. 22, 2025. Joshua Carter Belleville ...

“Alton, Illinois, the hometown of jazz musician Miles Davis, is located where Route 66 meets the Great River Road. This ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding uncertainty.

ALTON — The National Great River Museum, located at 2 Lock and Dam Way in Alton, will hold the annual Mississippi Meanderings at noon on Saturday, Jan. 25. MRWTA (Mississippi River Water Trail ...

On the upper Mississippi, which stretches from the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota to Cairo, Illinois, south of St. Louis, the calmer, shallower offshoots of the river known as the ...

As winter weather comes down from the north, bringing with it ice along the Mississippi River, eagles ... Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton. The trumpeter swan is North America’s largest ...