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Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois

a town of 10,000 pop., on Illinois River, near the mouth of Fox River, on the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, 84 miles from Chicago. The falls in the river at this point furnish abundance of water power, which is employed in various manufactures. Immense quantities of grain are shipped from this point.

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