Streator
a city in Lasalle co., III.; on the Vermilion river, and on the Burlington Route, the Chicago and Alton, the Wabash, the New York Central, the Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé railroads; 93 miles S. W. of Chicago. It is the trade center of a large agricultural and coal district. There are also valuable clay deposits in the city. Here are a high school, public library, park, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, several National banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. The city has extensive glass works, foundries, machine shops, flour mills, planing mills, brick works, etc.
Pop. (1910) 14,253; (1920) 14,779.