ALTON — Celebrating its 40th anniversary this month ... feeling is that most people are glad we stopped the highway, because we wouldn’t have the new bridge where it is, the casino or the new amphitheater if Landmarks wouldn’t have stepped in ...

Ultraviolets: 7 p.m., Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton. John Krane: 10 p.m., Stagger Inn Again, Edwardsville. Willie Nelson: 8 p.m., The Pageant, St. Louis. $45, Ticketmaster.com. Jo Dee Messina: 7:30 p.m., Ameristar Casino, St. Charles, Mo. $

... concept to a new level, offering luxury penthouses in a non-gambling hotel. Sure, the blackjack and pai gow poker tables are only a few steps away, down a walkway called the Skytube that connects to Palms Casino ... same as when Alton, Arissa ...

Louis in Missouri; and Alton ... increase when a casino is established in a city. For example, in 2008, a study published in the scholarly journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors found that current prevalence rates of pathological gambling are not ...