A small town in southern Illinois. Filled with white trash wiggers, and hillbillys. They do have a small number of black people there though who many of the residents of Alton think gives them an excuse to act like their town is the ghetto. Many of the residents of Alton are lower middle class, although some of its residents are extremely wealthy. Alton is supposedly one of the most haunted small towns in the USA. A very long time ago Alton,IL had a higher population than St.Louis,MO.