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12 unusual facts about Joliet


Adam's Ribs

Hawkeye and Trapper go down to try to negotiate them from a stubborn supply sergeant, who is willing to help once he finds out where they're from (as he lives in Joliet, a Chicago suburb, and is a huge fan of Adam's Ribs).

AR-10

During the early 1980s, the Joliet, Illinois based Paragon Sales and Services manufactured new semi-automatic lower receivers while using imported upper AR-10 receivers originally manufactured by Artillerie-Inrichtingen in the Netherlands.

Elsie Paroubek

Two days later, electrical engineer George T. Scully and other employees of the Lockport power plant near Joliet, thirty-five miles outside of Chicago, saw a body floating in the drainage canal.

Joliet, Montana

Fire Hall (Joliet, Montana) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Carbon County, Montana

It is part of the Billings, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Louis Joliet Hotel

The Louis Joliet Hotel is a historic, eight-story building in Joliet, Illinois.

Louis Jolliet

Louis' main legacy is most tangible in the Midwestern United States and Quebec, mostly through geographical names, including the cities of Joliet, Illinois; Joliet, Montana; and Joliette, Quebec (founded by one of Jolliet's descendants, Barthélemy Joliette).

Minooka High School

The district, is largely composed of the communities of Minooka and Channahon, and also includes portions of Shorewood, Joliet and Troy.

Rock Island District

The Rock Island District consists of the former Rock Island main line to Joliet and the slightly longer Suburban Line that loops to the west between Gresham and Blue Island.

Romeoville High School

Romeoville High School is located in northern Will County, Illinois about 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago and about seven miles north of Joliet, Illinois along Illinois Routes 7, 53, and 171.

Slovenian Women's Union of America

The society is headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, and publishes a magazine called Zarja (The Dawn in English).

Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet

The Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet (UUCJ) is a Unitarian Universalist church, and is home to one of the oldest congregations in Joliet, Illinois.


Cameron, Illinois

Prior to 1996, the Southwest Chief, and its predecessor, the Santa Fe's famed Super Chief, traveled to Galesburg on the Chilicothe subdivision by way of Joliet, Streator, and Chillicothe.

Chicago Festival Ballet

Sister to the Chicago Festival Ballet Company is the Von Heidecke School of Ballet, with studios in Naperville, Joliet, and Chicago, Illinois.

Holdermann

James F. Holderman (born 1946, Joliet, Illinois), a United States federal judge

Howard M. Snapp

He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in Globe, Arizona and returned to Joliet, Illinois, and continued the practice of law.

James Ferriss

He moved to Maine after the incident, but returned in 1882 to edit the Joliet News until 1915.

Joseph Awinongya

Joseph Awinongya (born Asiaman, Ghana, 1974) is a professional boxing trainer and public speaker on sports who operates the Will County Boxing Gym in Joliet, Illinois, and is best known as the trainer of IBO International Middleweight champion Osumanu Adama.

KPBR

KWMY, a radio station (105.9 FM) licensed to Joliet, Montana, United States, which held the call sign KPBR from 2006 to 2009

Lawrence Jenco

Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, (27 November 1934 - 19 July 1996), a native of Joliet, Illinois, was taken hostage in Beirut by five armed men in January 1985, while serving as director of Catholic Relief Services there.

Let's Go to Prison

The defunct Joliet Prison in Joliet, Illinois used for the film is the same prison featured in the beginning of The Blues Brothers (1980) and the first season of the Fox show Prison Break (2005).

LifeLock 400

GEICO 400 or LifeLock.com 400 (July, 2008-2010), at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois

Majczek and Marcinkiewicz

McGuire first suspected there may have been a wrongful conviction when he learned that Majczek and Marcinkiewicz had not gone to the electric chair for the officer's murder but were sentenced to 99 years each at Joliet.

Mitchigamea

In 1673, Marquette and Joliet needed a translator from Miami-Illinois to understand the Michigamea; most contact was in Plains Sign Language.

Steve Parris

Steven Michael Parris (born December 17, 1967 in Joliet, Illinois), is a former Major League Baseball player who played pitcher from 1995-2003.

Three Smart Saps

The mobster party in prison is decorated with college-sports-style banners for Alcatraz, Joliet, Leavenworth and Sing Sing, all well-known prisons of the day.