* 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.

* May 17 – In America, trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.

* June 17 – French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas.

The first visitors to present-day Hodgkins, explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, paddled down the Des Plaines River in 1673, passing through the area, making their camp in present-day Summit.

The origin of the name, which was what it would be called or referred to in popular vernacular, was most likely a corruption of the name of French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet, who in 1673, along with Father Jacques Marquette, paddled up the Des Plaines River and camped on a huge mound, a few miles ( a unit of distance ) south of present-day Joliet.

The city, which is located on the Mississippi River, is named after Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette, who along with Louis Joliet discovered the Mississippi River just southeast of the city on June 17, 1673.

The first European explorers in the Ottawa County region were the French-Canadian explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette who passed through the region in the mid 17th century.

Since Tipton County is one of the five counties of the State of Tennessee that is located along the Mississippi River, this area was first explored by white people during the noted expedition of the French Canadians Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet in 1673.

Portage was named for the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a portage between the Fox River and the Wisconsin River, which was recognized by Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet during their discovery of a route to the Mississippi River in 1673.

Explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet passed through the area in 1673, following the canoe route to the Mississippi.

In 1673, Fathers Marquette and Joliet traveled south on Lake Michigan to Green Bay, crossed the divide of the Fox into the Wisconsin and reached the Mississippi River, from where they continued southward passing the confluence of the Pekistanoui from the west, the Ohio from the east, and until noting signs of Spanish influence from the south.

The first Europeans to reach Prairie du Chien were the French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, who arrived by canoe on June 17, 1673, discovering a route to the Mississippi River.

First explored in 1673 by the expedition of Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette, the area was soon claimed by France and became part of Louisiana, together with Lower Louisiana.

Today, only faint echoes of French Peoria survive in the street plan of downtown Peoria, and in the name of an occasional street, school, or hotel meeting room: Joliet, Marquette, LaSalle.

Twain reports that the early explorers De Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and La Salle visited " the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas " in their pioneering journeys.

After passing through West Union, it turns northeast and joins U. S. Route 52 at Postville, then leaving 52 about east of Monona before crossing the Mississippi River into Wisconsin via the Marquette – Joliet Bridge in the city of Marquette.

First used by European settlers in 1673 during the expedition of Marquette & Joliet, it was one of the principal routes used by travelers between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River until the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848 and the arrival of railroads.

The earliest French explorers were Father Marquette and Joliet in the summer of 1673.

Points of interest include: the art-deco Marshall Square Theater at Cermak Road and Marshall Boulevard, which was originally a vaudeville venue, later a silent movie theater, and currently a venue for banquets, weddings, and Latin music under the current name of " Apollo's 2000 "; the remaining building of the former Albaugh-Dover mail-order warehouse and factory on Marshall Boulevard at 21st ; the massive Carter Harrison High School at 24th Boulevard and Marshall Boulevard, now an elementary school named for Maria Saucedo, an area teacher who lost her life in a fire in 1981, and is the alma mater of clarinet player Benny Goodman and newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet ; and the highly visible statue of Marquette and Joliet which stands at the junction between Marshall and 24th Boulevards.

Although Native Americans have occupied what is now Iowa for 13, 000 years, the written history of Iowa begins with the protohistoric accounts of Native Americans by explorers such as Marquette and Joliet in the 1680s.

In 1673 the Frenchmen J. Marquette and L. Joliet visited Iowa.

The significance of the lake was that it provided a significant travel route for native Americans and the French explorers Marquette and Joliet.

In 1673 French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, were among the first Europeans to encounter the Osage as they explored southward from present-day Canada in their expedition to the Mississippi River.

The Joliet JackHammers made the playoffs in their first season while the Gary SouthShore RailCats were forced to play an entire season on the road because the city of Gary did not have their stadium completed on time.

Around 1917 the Marx Brothers family ( later a famous comedy team ) bought a chicken farm near Joliet Road ( Route 66 ) and LaGrange Road.

Crystal Lawns is located near the northwest corner of the city of Joliet, just southeast of the Westfield Louis Joliet shopping mall.

The Joliet Line of the Michigan Central Railroad once ran through Lake Station, along Fairview Road and through Liverpool near where the CF & E crosses Liverpool road.

* 25px US 52 to Joliet, Illinois ( also near Chicago ) and Indianapolis

Further southeast, the tornado lost strength until lifting near Woodlawn Avenue and Campbell Street in Joliet.

Pacheco was born in Joliet, Illinois, but moved to Mexico with his family when he was very young, where he and his two siblings were raised near the ocean by his Mexican father, a physician, and his mother, an American nurse.

The first recorded visit to the area by Europeans was on September 24, 1669, when the French explorers La Salle and Joliet met near Tinawatawa, now Westover.

In those days, it traveled in a " C " formation from the city of Lake Forest to Crystal Lake to Aurora to Joliet, and then east to the border near Indiana.

On Tuesday, March 10, 2009, the first two Canadian National trains debuted on the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern, with plans to run six trains per day on the lines in the near future.

However, WCPT has a construction permit and has erected 6 towers near Joliet, IL to offer nighttime operation at 1. 5 kW.

Because it is located in downtown Joliet, there is a lot of free parking near the stadium.

He sold lots in Decatur, Lexington, Clinton, El Paso, Joliet, and LeRoy and in 1855 he purchased timber land and began operation a sawmill near Ullin in southern Illinois.

It is located on the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant near Elwood, in northeastern Illinois.

* August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado ( F5 on the Fujita scale ) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people ( the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area ).

Chicago ( Joliet Slammers, Schaumburg Boomers and Windy City ThunderBolts ) has 3 teams and St. Louis ( Gateway Grizzlies & River City Rascals ) has 2 teams while Cleveland ( Lake Erie Crushers ), Cincinnati ( Florence Freedom ) and Pittsburgh ( Washington Wild Things ) each have one.

It is located approximately 19 miles south of the Chicago Loop and is part of the Chicago – Naperville – Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Willow Springs has a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor, which provides daily rail service between Joliet, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois ( at Union Station ).

It is the fifth-largest city in the state, behind Chicago, neighboring Aurora, Rockford, and Joliet.

Joliet ( or ) is a city in Will and Kendall Counties in the U. S. state of Illinois, located southwest of Chicago.

It is immediately south of the city of Joliet, and is about 36 miles southwest of Chicago.

The junction brought in trains on the Michigan Central, Erie, Grand Trunk, Elgin Joliet & Eastern ( EJ & E ) and The Chesapeake & Ohio, many going to and from Chicago.

The following high schools were also established: Malvern Preparatory School in Pennsylvania ( 1842 ); St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago ( 1909 ); St. Augustine High School in San Diego, California ( 1922 ); Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, California ( 1925 ); Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, Oklahoma ( 1926 ); Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania ( 1953 ); St. Augustine College Preparatory School in South Jersey ( 1959 ); Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts ( 1961 ) and in 1962, Providence Catholic High School, which serves the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Don Murray was born in Joliet, Illinois, and attended high school in Chicago.

In 1938, Mikan attended the Chicago Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and originally wanted to be a priest, but then moved back home to finish at Joliet Catholic.

The Chicago Tribune referred to their leader as " George ' Baby Face ' Nelson " who received a sentence of one year to life in the state penitentiary at Joliet.

* 1989: Southern Pacific acquires 223 miles of former Alton trackage between St. Louis and Joliet from the Chicago, Missouri & Western.

Construction began October 1, 1851, in Chicago, and the first train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet.

Assets now include the Chicago Sun-Times in the United States, and various suburban and neighborhood newspapers in the Chicago area, including the Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana, the Pioneer Press group, the SouthtownStar, The Beacon-News in the Aurora-Naperville area, The Herald News ( Joliet ) and the Lake County News-Sun.

The Southwest Chief formerly operated on a different alignment from Galesburg to Chicago via Chillicothe, Streator and Joliet, Illinois, until 1996 when it was routed over the California Zephyr route.

In Illinois, there is a small spur east of the former crossing of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern serving a construction-materials business in West Chicago.