Joliet, Illinois, USA
1895 - Joliet

Joliet, jo'le-et, a city, the capital of Will co., Ill. in Joliet township, on Des Plaines River, and on the Illinois & Michigan Canal, 37 miles S.W. of Chicago. It is situated on several important railways, whose main lines or branches converge at this place, including the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, the Chicago & Alton, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern, and the Michigan Central. It contains many handsome stone buildings, 12 churches, 3 chapels, a Catholic academy. 3 high schools, 3 national banks, 3 other banks, a convent, and a state prison. The last is a magnificent structure, built of fine gray limestone quarried in the vicinity. Five newspapers are published here. Joliet has extensive flour-mills, machine-shops, 3 breweries, lime kilns, brick-yards, a foundry, manufactories of boots and shoes which employ 450 men, cigar-factories (135 men), Bessemer steel-works and rolling-mills (2000 men), carriage-shops, marble-works and manufactures of builders' hardware (100 men), cooperage (180 men), farming-implements, stoves, sash, doors, and binds, 5 extensive barbed wire mills (2000 hands), and a sheet-rolling-mill. The river affords water-power at this place. Here are large quarries of excellent Silurian lime stone, called Joliet limestone, of which several fine public buildings of Chicago have been constructed. About 1200 men are employed in these quarries. Pop. in 1890, 23,264; of the township, excluding the city, 4174.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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