
The Sanitary and Ship Canal and the parallel Ship Canal dominate the southern landscape, marking a heavy industrial corridor where the Des Plaines River flows toward Lockport. This late-twentieth-century environment is defined by its transit infrastructure, from the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe RR to the busy Stevenson Expressway. The transition from rural to suburban is visible in the clusters of schools and subdivisions around Romeoville and Bolingbrook, contrasted with massive extractive operations like the Quarries near Lemont.
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1890 · Des Plaines
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1891 · Riverside
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1892 · Joliet
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1893 · Riverside
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1894 · Des Plaines
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1900 · Des Plaines
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1900 · Riverside
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1901 · Des Plaines
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1901 · Riverside
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1908 · Wheaton
USGS Topo · 1:62,500