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Cicero had its start in 1846 when a sawmill was built there. [2] Once the surrounding forests were depleted, the sawmill closed and the town's population dwindled. [2] Cicero had a post office from 1852 until it was discontinued in 1901. [3]
The first settlement at Rainbow was made in the spring of 1795. [2] The community most likely took its name from Rainbow Creek. [3] A post office called Rainbow was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1903. [4]
Historic Route 66 & IL 53 in Joliet south of Theodore Street. Currently, IL 53 coincides with Route 66 through Joliet. North of Joliet, the early roadbed was four lanes wide by 1936. [10] It passed by the notorious Stateville Penitentiary, then in unincorporated Joliet but now in Crest Hill ever since that suburb was created.
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The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway, or C&JE, was an electric interurban railway linking the cities of Chicago and Joliet, Illinois.It was the only interurban between those cities and provided a link between the streetcar network of Chicago and the cities along the Des Plaines River Valley in north central Illinois, which were served by the Illinois Valley Division of the Illinois Traction ...
The Joliet East Side Historic District is a set of 290 buildings in Joliet, Illinois. Of these 290 buildings, 281 contribute to the historical integrity of the area. Joliet was founded in 1831, deemed an ideal place for a settlement to reap the local natural resources.
In 1947, the Alton, together with its Joliet Subdivision, was merged into the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was in turn merged into the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad in 1972. In 1987, most of the former Alton Railroad route, from Joliet to St Louis, was purchased by the newly formed Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway , leaving only ...
While all north–south streets within city limits are named, rather than numbered, smaller streets in some areas are named in groups all starting with the same letter; thus, when traveling westward on a Chicago street, starting just past Pulaski Road (4000 W), one will cross a mile-long stretch of streets which have names starting with the letter K (From east to west: Keystone (North Side ...