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Ottawa (City and county-seat) (II)

city and county-seat of Lasalle co., Ill.; at the confluence of the Illinois and Fox rivers, on the Illinois and Michigan canal, and on the Burlington Route, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific and the Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria railroads; 85 miles S. W. of Chicago. Here are Pleasant View College (Luth.), St. Francis Xavier Academy, Ryburn Memorial Hospital, business college, parks, Reddick Library, court house, street railroad and electric has manufactories of carriages, carriages, furniture, soap, flour, gas engines and foundry products. Pop. (1910) 7,650; (1920) 9,018.