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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Grundy
- Townships
- Morris , Erienna , Saratoga , Wauponsee
- Total
- 11.64 sq mi (30.15 km )
- Land
- 11.28 sq mi (29.22 km )
- Water
- 0.36 sq mi (0.93 km )
- Elevation
- 528 ft (161 m)
- Density
- 1,255.2/sq mi (484.65/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Area codes
- 815/779
- Fips code
- 17-50491
- Website
- morrisil .org
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
A team of ten anthropologists and sociologists from the 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.