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Granite City

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Granite City

City in Madison County, southwest Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St Louis, Missouri; population (1990) 32,800. An industrial city with its own port on the Chain of Rocks Canal, it manufactures steel products, car frames, chemicals, and building materials.

It was founded in 1891 when a graniteware factory was built here, and was incorporated in 1896.


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to superintendent, Granite City Community Unit School District 9, Granite City, Ill.
With that in mind, the 226th is being inactivated in Granite City; its element there is reflagged as the 1151st, reducing the companies based further to the north to just the 1150th and 1152nd, which will absorb personnel displaced by the movement of the 1151st colors to Granite City.
 
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