Lockport is a historic city in Will County, Illinois, United States, located 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Lockport was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975. The city was incorporated in 1853 and is situated along the Illinois and Michigan (I&M) Canal. Recently, it was named one of the fastest-growing suburbs in America, by Forbes Magazine.
Population: 24,839
Latitude: 41° 35' 22.13" N
Longitude: -88° 03' 28.22" W
Naperville is a suburb of Chicago, located in DuPage and Will counties in the State of Illinois. Naperville was voted the second-best place to live in the United States by Money magazine in 2006. It was rated 1st on the list of best cities for early…
Joliet (/ˈdʒoʊli.ɛt/ or /dʒoʊliˈɛt/) is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, located 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County. As of the 2010 census, the city was the fourth largest in…
Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research national laboratory located near Lemont, IL, outside Chicago. It is the largest national laboratory by size and scope in the Midwest.
Lisle is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 21,182 at the 2000 census, and as per City Data in 2012 22,687. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.
Downers Grove is a village in Downers Grove, Lisle, and York Townships, DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
Benet Academy (/ˈbɛnɛt/ BEN-et; often shortened to Benet) is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet. Founded in 1887, the school was initially established i…
Stateville Correctional Center (SCC) is a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, USA, in Greater Chicago.
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is the only shipping link between the Great Lakes Waterway (specifically Lake Michigan by way of either the Chicago River or the Calumet-Saganashkee (Cal-Sag) Cha…
Bolingbrook, a suburb of Chicago, is a village in Will and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.
Tinley Park is an affluent village located primarily in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with a small portion in Will County. The population was 56,703 at the 2010 census. It is one of the fastest growing suburbs south of Chicago.
Will County is a county located in the northern part of the state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 677,560, which is an increase of 34.9% from 502,266 in 2000, making it the fourth-most populous county in Illinois.
WLS (890 kHz) is an AM radio station located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Owned by Cumulus Media along with WLS-FM (94.7 MHz), the station broadcasts as a Class A station on a clear-channel frequency with 50 kilowatts (or 50,000 watts) of power.
…Joliet Correctional Center (originally known as Illinois State Penitentiary, colloquially as Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary and the Collins Street Prison) was a prison in Joliet, Illinois, United States from 1858 to 2002. It is featured in the m…
Plainfield is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States.
Benedictine University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Lisle, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The school was founded in 1887 as St. Procopius College by the Benedictine monks of St. Procopius Abbey in the Pilsen community on the Wes…
Orland Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States which in 2010 had a population of 56,767.
Lemont is a historic village located in Cook, DuPage, and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 16,000 at the 2010 census.
Hodgkins is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.