Morris | |
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 Location of Morris in Grundy County, Illinois. | |
.svg) Location of Illinois in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 41°22′28″N 88°25′48″W / 41.37444°N 88.43000°W[1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Grundy |
| Townships | Morris, Erienna, Saratoga, Wauponsee |
| Founded | 1842 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11.64 sq mi (30.15 km2) |
| • Land | 11.28 sq mi (29.22 km2) |
| • Water | 0.36 sq mi (0.93 km2) |
| Elevation | 515 ft (157 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 14,163 |
| • Density | 1,255.25/sq mi (484.65/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 60450 |
| Area codes | 815/779 |
| FIPS code | 17-50491 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2395407[1] |
| Wikimedia Commons | Morris, Illinois |
| Website | morrisil |
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Morris is a city in and the county seat of Grundy County, Illinois, United States and part of the southwest Chicago metropolitan area. The population was 14,163 as of the 2020 census.[4]
A team of ten anthropologists and sociologists from nearby University of Chicago studied the city in depth and reported its findings in W. Lloyd Warner, editor, Democracy in Jonesville: A Study of Quality and Inequality (1949).[5]
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Morris, Illinois
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ "Morris city, Illinois". American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. 2010. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
- ^ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ^ "William Lloyd Warner" in Oxford Reference (2023) online