Joliet
The most famous thing about the city of Joliet is
its prison, which was its second-largest source of jobs
until it was shut down due to a mixture of scandal and
dilapidation. With the waves of the interdiction racing
their way through the Collar at the end of the last cen7 5
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tury, any prosperity Joliet had in its future was quickly
crushed. Transitioning from a bustling ironworks city
to a city of squalor, Joliet is set in wrought-steel bridges
over the Des Plaines River. A distinctly rust belt town,
Joliet stands as a testament to the brutality financial
might can deploy on a city. A large portion of the city is
dilapidated, lower-income housing. Sweeping neighborhoods already weakened by the loss of working-class
jobs took the brunt of the gangland rout, playing host
to the influx of refugees from the Chicago ghettos’ dissolution at the turn of the century. The other portions
of the city hold slowly rotting mansions. Skeletons of
the economic security of the past, these parishes contain
the academic strongholds and remaining old money.
The city center boasts only two buildings of import: the
county courthouse and Union Station at the end of the
Southwest Service Metra Line, which begins in the heart
of the Hive
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