The Piasa bird apparently is a legendary creature – at least no remains of a beast that is equal parts bird, reptile, lion and deer have ever been found.

Antagonist Café, Piasa Bird, This Week in History – Movie Stardom. We visit Antagonist Café in Soulard, located inside an Art Deco landmark built by the WPA agency during the Great Depression ...

Today the Piasa is a never-ending project where it has to routinely have touch-ups on paint. But where the painting rests, there is a parking lot that is the starting point for bike trails around ...

Retiring Alton Middle School art teacher Mimi Almonroeder stands in front of a paper mache version of the Piasa Bird that students made over the last school year. About 50 students in four ...

A modern-day painting of the Piasa Bird welcomes people to Alton, Illinois at the edge of the Mississippi River. Some upgrades could soon move forward around it to improve the visitor experience.

ALTON — The Piasa Bird formerly found near Alton continues its life beside a Macoupin County football field. The steel Piasa Bird was erected in 1984 on the bluff at Norman's Landing in what is ...

The painting was damaged June 10 when vandals threw tar-dipped sticks at the bird and dripped tar on Piasa Park's patio and walkway.

The new plans will maintain the famed Piasa bird that was painted in the late 1990s.

The redevelopment of Piasa Park in Alton includes a new Byway Discovery Center tourist center, shown in this rendering. The "Piasa Bird" painting can be seen on the limestone cliff to the left in ...

It's a painting that's hard to miss along the Great River Road, and Marlene Shockley wants to know the story behind it. It is hard to miss with its scary looking talons and sharp teeth. A bird ...