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 ...

Alton area residents enjoyed a tall, cool drink on Saturday in honor of a similarly lofty-statured native son. Robert Wadlow’s 107th birthday was celebrated at the Old Bakery Beer Company with ...

S. doctors’ tongues, for the Journal of the American Medical Association had just published a lengthy thoroughgoing account of Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. who, the author asserted ...

Last week Alton, Ill., famed as the home of Giant Robert Wadlow, was publicized as the theatre of operations of a latter-day Carry Nation, a Mrs. Irene Kite, 32. Last December Mrs. Kite got an ax ...

ALTON - The Alton-Godfrey Rotary Club’s 39th ... including Lincoln-Douglas Square, the Robert Wadlow statue, fountains and more. A lot of their projects are funded through efforts like the ...

the Robert Wadlow statue, fountains and more. A lot of their projects are funded through efforts like the Chili Chowdown. They are always looking for more ways to help the community. “It’s a big deal, ...

Today is Monday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2025. There are 310 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Feb. 24, 1868, the U.S. House of ...

Robert John, an itinerant singer-songwriter who was working in construction before scoring a Number One hit with 1979’s “Sad Eyes,” died Monday. He was 79. Michael Pedrick, John’s son, con ...

Not Robert Pattinson. It’s not a leap to think that the 38-year-old actor with the bedroom eyes and the matinee-idol mug requested that things be even more silly, repulsive, and bizarre.

The singer-songwriter notched his first Hot 100 hit at just 12 years old. By Rania Aniftos Robert John, a singer-songwriter whose inimitable voice lent itself to a number of Billboard Hot 100 hits ...

John earned a Grammy nomination for "Sad Eyes" Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Robert John, the singer-songwriter behind the chart-topping hit "Sad Eyes," has died. He was 79. John's son Michael ...