Alton
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Sep 19, 2026
John GreenHOST
Like, in 1838, a mob in Philadelphia burned down Pennsylvania Hall because people were using it to hold abolitionist meetings.
John GreenHOST
And you were doing so well, Philadelphia! A year later, a mob in Alton, Illinois murdered anti-slavery editor Elijah P.
John GreenHOST
Lovejoy when he was defending his printing press.
John GreenHOST
This was the fifth time, by the way, that a mob had destroyed one of his newspapers.
Adam MarburgerGUEST
Um, near St. Louis.
Adam MarburgerGUEST
We're right across the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois.
Adam MarburgerGUEST
And uh, I have a few businesses.
Adam MarburgerGUEST
So I've got, uh-
Adam MarburgerGUEST
... an insurance brokerage firm, which is Ascent Dealer Services.
Jay SlangenHOST
Yeah.
Adam MarburgerGUEST
Alton Elite, that's my jujitsu academy.
Adam MarburgerGUEST
And then Marburger Investment Group is one of my real estate companies.
Rasha PecoraroHOST
until you hear about Robert Wadlow.
Rasha PecoraroHOST
Robert was born in Alton, Illinois on February 22nd, 1918.
Rasha PecoraroHOST
He was an average-sized baby born to average-sized parents.
Rasha PecoraroHOST
But when he was a toddler, he went through a massive growth spurt.
McGraw MilhavenGUEST
Yeah.
McGraw MilhavenGUEST
So, and, but I mean, Kansas City, Missouri- Is bigger than East Saint Louis and, you know, Alton, Illinois.
Pete MundoHOST
Mm-hmm.
McGraw MilhavenGUEST
So we don't ha- it, it's not 50/50.
Michael SmerconishHOST
This is Melissa.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Melissa is in Alton, Illinois.
Michael SmerconishHOST
What thoughts do you have on my friend Bob?
MelissaAUDIENCE
Mine actually would have to do with the demographics.
Sundiata ChajuaGUEST
And my theory, since they don't show up on any census records, they're basically a maroon community hiding out.
Sundiata ChajuaGUEST
By 1837, a group of five white men abolitionists out of Alton come in, plant the land, and create a town which they call Brooklyn.
Sundiata ChajuaGUEST
The African Americans by the early 1840s purchased land in the town.
Sundiata ChajuaGUEST
They are always the overwhelming majority.
Brian MackeyHOST
What does that name come from?
Sundiata ChajuaGUEST
Well, it comes from Elijah Lovejoy, who was one of the first martyrs in the cause of the anti-slavery movement.
Sundiata ChajuaGUEST
He was in Alton, Illinois.
Sundiata ChajuaGUEST
He was a newspaper editor.
Alan J. RinghausenHOST
And you're telling me that there's now one in our vicinity.
Alan J. RinghausenHOST
There's one in Alton, yeah.
Craig JohnsonHOST
Yep.
Craig JohnsonHOST
I found out today, and it's been in there since last October.
Alan J. RinghausenHOST
and then you went directly from Wingstop to Wendy's.
Craig JohnsonHOST
No, no.
Craig JohnsonHOST
I was going to go to Wendy's, and then I looked up, and I saw there was a Wingstop, and I'm like, I didn't know there was a Wingstop in Alton.
Craig JohnsonHOST
That's where I'm having supper.
Ben JoravskyHOST
And that happened to be the day that the Miles Electric Band came out.
Ben JoravskyHOST
This is a band of Chicago musicians dedicated to continuing the sounds of Miles Davis, the great trumpet player who was actually from Illinois, born in Alton, raised in St. Louis.
Ben JoravskyHOST
it up if you don't believe me one of the most innovative uh jazz trumpeters jazz geniuses in the whole history i wanted let's just take jazz out of the sentence musical genius uh and he had this electric electric phase that he went through in the late 60s and into the 70s which was like a fusion of jazz and rock Whatever.
Ben JoravskyHOST
You don't need that lecture.
Andrew OrrGUEST
So we're based out of Little Rock.
Andrew OrrGUEST
We have a corporate – our corporate's in Alton, Illinois.
Andrew OrrGUEST
We have a – 300,000 square foot warehouse that is flammed full of machines.
Andrew OrrGUEST
So you
Jim VieiraGUEST
And you have the same thing in the Smithsonian's ethnology reports.
Jim VieiraGUEST
This scientist found the same remarkable remains, seven to eight foot tall, sometimes taller, 36-inch circumference skull found in, uh, Alton, Illinois by Thomas M. Perrin.
Jim VieiraGUEST
So their scientist found and recorded this phenomena.
Jim VieiraGUEST
And then Dr. Hrdlička, the Czech anthropologist, became the head of anthropology at the Smithsonian in the turn of the 1900- 1900s.
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