{"id":34441,"count":1,"description":"Bethalto is a village located in Madison County, Illinois, USA. Bethalto, like the rest of Madison County, is part of the Illinois Metro-East portion of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. The population of Bethalto was recorded to be 9,454 in the 2000 census, and 9,961 in a July 2009 estimate.\nBethalto is located at 38\u00b054\u203215\u2033N 90\u00b02\u203248\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff38.90417\u00b0N 90.04667\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 38.90417; -90.04667 (38.904197, -90.046579).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 6.6 square miles (17\u00a0km), all of it land.\nBethalto was founded in 1834, incorporated April 19, 1869 under a special charter and again in 1873 under the State of Illinois\u2019 general law. It is governed by a Village President and six (6) trustees elected at large.\nThe original name of Bethalto was Bethel. However, when the first post office was established, it was discovered that there was already a Bethel, Illinois. There is a general consensus that the name \"Bethalto\" came from the first four...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/bethalto\/","name":"Bethalto","slug":"bethalto","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=34441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}