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Joliet, Will County, Illinois

a town of 10,000 pop., on Des Plaines River and on the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, at the intersection of the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, 40 miles from Chicago. The Michigan Canal passes through here and furnishes extensive water power. The center of a rich and populous agricultural district, and a depot for the shipment of large quantities of grain and produce. Considerable manufacturing done here.

New York. 1869.

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