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Grundy County, Illinois

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19newspaper titles
0digitized titles
7historic places
1800earliest paper
1841formed
52,533pop. 2020
40cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 19 newspaper titles published in Grundy County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1800. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1994; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Morris.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Grundy

Library of Congress
19 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Grundy County Weekly HeraldMorris1800–1862
The Braceville HeraldMorris1800–1999
The ChronicleGardner1800–1919
The Gardner Weekly HeraldMorris1800–1999
The Grundy YeomanMorris1851–1859
Grundy County HeraldMorris1856–1899
Grundy County HeraldMorris1862–1869
Herald and AdvertiserMorris1866–1874
The Liberal ReformerMorris1872–1876
Gardner IndependentGardner1876–1899
The EnterpriseGardner1876–1899
The Grundy County SentinelMorris1893–1999
The Gardner ChronicleGardner1910–?
Grundy County ProgressiveMorris1933–1999
Chanooka WeeklyChannahon, Minooka1973–?
Grundy County Daily GazetteMorris?–
Grundy County Weekly GazetteMorris?–
The Coal City CourantCoal City?–
The Grundy County RegisterMazon?–

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18001856191319692026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Coleman Hardware Company BuildingMorrisBuilding1994
Dresden Island Lock and Dam Historic DistrictMorrisDistrict2004
Mazon Creek Fossil Beds NHLMorrisSite1997
Morris Downtown Commercial Historic DistrictMorrisDistrict2006
Morris Wide Water Canal Boat SiteMorrisStructure2000
White and Company's Goose Lake Stoneware ManufacturyMorrisSite1998
White and Company's Goose Lake Tile WorksMorrisSite1998

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Grundy was formed in 1841 (1841-02-17) from La Salle.

GRUNDY created from LA SALLE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Grundy County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

53k28k3,0231850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,02310,37916,73224,13618,58018,39819,21722,35030,58237,53552,533

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

40 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 40 of 40 listed
NameLatLon
Anderson CemeteryNoneNone
Augustine CemeteryNoneNone
Aux Sable Cemetery41.42256-88.35248
Barner CemeteryNoneNone
Brookside Cemetery41.23465-88.43612
Cholera CemeteryNoneNone
Claypool CemeteryNoneNone
Cotton Cemetery41.23003-88.26228
Cryder Cemetery41.39002-88.41451
Cryder Cemetery41.39002-88.41423
Dresden Cemetery41.40344-88.27688
Evergreen Cemetery41.36933-88.39316
Farmingdale CemeteryNoneNone
Gardner Prairie Cemetery41.11982-88.33479
Garfield CemeteryNoneNone
Goodfarm Cemetery41.1402-88.40449
Hartford CemeteryNoneNone
Hoge-Holderman CemeteryNoneNone
Holderman Cemetery41.35839-88.36857
Holderman and Hoge Cemetery41.40591-88.53862
Hollenbeck CemeteryNoneNone
Italian CemeteryNoneNone
Lamb Property CemeteryNoneNone
Mount Carmel Cemetery41.35112-88.46583
Norman CemeteryNoneNone
Oak Ridge CemeteryNoneNone
Oak Ridge CemeteryNoneNone
Old Mazon Cemetery41.21946-88.39807
Reniff CemeteryNoneNone
Saint George CemeteryNoneNone
Saint Marys Cemetery41.45668-88.27044
Sample Cemetery41.33827-88.39151
Saratoga Cemetery41.43725-88.42257
Seneca CemeteryNoneNone
Short Cemetery41.33114-88.28812
Stevens CemeteryNoneNone
Verona CemeteryNoneNone
Ward Cemetery41.21685-88.47212
Wheeler Cemetery41.20413-88.39627
Woodbury CemeteryNoneNone
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Centerville41.25642-88.29395
Highland Town41.1942-88.49173

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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