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Also known as Morris, Illinois, Morris, IL

city in Illinois, United States

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.

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