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The Swift House is a historic house at 4500 S. Michigan Avenue in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois.The house was built in 1892 for Edward Morris and his wife Helen Swift Morris.
Location of Grundy County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grundy County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grundy County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
The historic district reflects the history of Morris, Illinois as a canal town on the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Named after canal commissioner Isaac N. Morris, the town became the Grundy County seat in 1841 and was originally platted a year later. The earliest of the buildings were built in the 1850s, shortly after the canal's construction.
Thomas E. Wilson (1868-1958), president of Morris & Company in 1913. Between 1904 and 1910, National Packing acquired 23 stockyards and slaughtering plants nationwide, which gave it control over about one-tenth of U.S. meat production. The company owned branches in over 150 cities around the world, along with a fleet of 2,600 refrigerated railcars.
Grundy County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 52,533. [1] Its county seat is Morris. [2] Grundy County is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. In 2010, the center of population of Illinois was in Grundy County, just northeast of the village of Mazon. [3]
The Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a 23.4-acre (9.5 ha) Lock and Dam complex on the Illinois River in Morris, Illinois. The dam was completed in 1933 and designed by engineer Walter Mickle Smith. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The listing included one contributing building and three contributing structures. [1]
As of the 2020 census [1] there were 2,289 people, 1,015 households, and 654 families residing in the township. The population density was 81.82 inhabitants per square mile (31.59/km 2).
Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area is a 2,537-acre (1,027 ha) state park in Illinois. More than half of the state park is a tallgrass prairie maintained as an Illinois Nature Preserve. It is located in Grundy County near the town of Morris approximately 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Chicago. [1]