Local coverage
Project conversations across Will County and the Joliet area.
Active coverage depends on independent provider availability -- each community page below covers local housing and site context around Joliet.
Shorewood
Shorewood began as a fishing and resort community called 'Troy' on the Des Plaines River, where an 1845 water-powered flour mill anchored the...
Local planning notes →Crest Hill
Crest Hill incorporated in 1960 specifically to avoid annexation by the City of Joliet, and a post-WWII building boom shaped most of its residential...
Local planning notes →Rockdale
Rockdale was settled by Slovenian and Lithuanian immigrants and incorporated in 1903, and the U.S. Navy built ships along the Des Plaines River...
Local planning notes →Plainfield
Plainfield grew from Walkers' Grove, a sawmill settlement platted on the banks of the DuPage River in 1828, making it the oldest community in Will...
Local planning notes →Lockport
Lockport was platted in 1837 as the Illinois and Michigan Canal's headquarters town, chosen for a 40-foot elevation drop that required canal locks...
Local planning notes →New Lenox
New Lenox traces to a settlement near Gouger crossing in the late 1820s and grew alongside the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, built through the...
Local planning notes →Channahon
Channahon takes its name from a Potawatomi phrase meaning 'meeting of the waters,' sitting at the confluence of the Des Plaines, Kankakee, and...
Local planning notes →Minooka
Minooka was platted in 1852 by railroad surveyor Ransom Gardner at 'the summit,' the highest point on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific...
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