Grand Tower is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 605 at the 2010 census.[3] The town gets its name from Tower Rock, a landmark island in the Mississippi River.[4]

Former names of this town include La Tour ("The Tower"), Jenkins Landing, Cochran's Woodyard Landing, and Evans' Landing.[5][6]

The earliest inhabitants were a band of river pirates, who settled here after being driven off Spanish soil west of the Mississippi River, near the pirate ambush spot of Tower Rock. 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.[7][8]

Severe flooding struck the town in 1947.[9]

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