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Joliet (City and county-seat of Will)

a city and county-seat of Will co., Ill., on both sides of the Des Plaines river, on the Illinois and Michigan canal, and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Rock Island and Pacific and other railroads; 40 miles S. W. of Chicago. The city contains the Silver Cross and St. Joseph's Hospitals, State penitentiary, and St. Francis and St. Mary Academies, public library, high school, and Swedish Orphan Home; is largely concerned in the steel industry; and has manufactories of steel and barbed wire, stove and boiler works, machine shops, tin plate and horse-shoe works, boot and shoe factories and flour mills. There are electric lights and street railways, National banks, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 34,670; (1920) 38,372.