{"id":35094,"count":1,"description":"Grand Tower is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 624 at the 2000 census. The town gets its name from Tower Rock, a landmark island in the Mississippi River.\nGrand Tower is located at 37\u00b037\u203257\u2033N 89\u00b030\u20327\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff37.6325\u00b0N 89.50194\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 37.6325; -89.50194 (37.632599, -89.501944).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4\u00a0km), all of it land.\nFormer names of this town include La Tour (\"The Tower\"), Jenkins Landing, Cochran's Woodyard Landing, and Evans' Landing.\nThe earliest inhabitants were a band of river pirates, who settled here after being driven off of Spanish soil west of the Mississippi River. This outlaw settlement was destroyed by the United States Army dragoons in 1803. A subsequent settler was a man named Walker who is the namesake of Walker Hill.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 624 people, 268 households, and 169 families residing in the city. The population density was 496.0 people...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/grand-tower\/","name":"Grand Tower","slug":"grand-tower","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/35094","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=35094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}