Local coverage
Project conversations across Joliet and Will County.
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Shorewood
Shorewood began as the riverside fishing community of 'Troy' and wasn't incorporated until 1957, mixing older cottage-turned-year-round homes with a 1970s subdivision boom along I-55 and I-80...
Local planning notes →Crest Hill
Crest Hill's housing stock is dominated by a single compressed postwar building boom, incorporated as a village in 1960 and a city by 1969, when shared construction-era details matter as much as the...
Local planning notes →Rockdale
Rockdale was settled by Slovenian and Lithuanian immigrants and incorporated in 1903, with century-old housing sitting close to the Des Plaines River corridor once used for Navy shipbuilding...
Local planning notes →Plainfield
Plainfield is Will County's oldest community, tracing to the 1828 Walkers' Grove settlement, and now mixes that historic downtown core with much newer rebuilt-era subdivisions...
Local planning notes →Lockport
Lockport was platted in 1837 as the Illinois and Michigan Canal's headquarters town and incorporated in 1853, leaving a historic core of canal-era buildings along the old milling corridor...
Local planning notes →New Lenox
New Lenox traces to 1820s VanHorne Point but wasn't incorporated until 1946, so its housing stock leans postwar rather than the pre-Civil-War construction found on Joliet's East Side...
Local planning notes →Channahon
Channahon sits at the confluence of the Des Plaines, Kankakee, and DuPage rivers, a Potawatomi-named 'meeting of the waters' twice incorporated, most recently in 1961...
Local planning notes →Minooka
Minooka was platted in 1852 at the highest point on the rail line to Ottawa and incorporated in 1869, with an older rail-era core and newer growth spreading onto lower-lying farmland...
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