Location: Joliet
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Joliet (/ˈdʒoʊli.ɛt/ or /dʒoʊliˈɛt/) is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County and a major part of the southwest Chicago metropolitan area. At the 2010 census, the city was the fourth largest in Illinois, with a population of 147,433. A population estimate in 2016 put Joliet's population at 149,395, which would make it the 3rd largest city in Illinois if accurate.
Restaurants in Joliet
1. Richard Petty Driving Experience
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5.0 based on 9 reviews
Get behind the wheel in one of our 8 – 80 lap driving programs or Ride-Along shotgun for 3 high-speed laps at over 20 tracks nationwide – including Chicagoland Speedway!
2. Rusty Wallace Racing Experience, Chicago Speedway
3. Chicagoland Speedway
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4.5 based on 136 reviews
4. Rialto Square Theatre
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4.5 based on 247 reviews
Reviewed By travelgirl1NewYork - Darien, United States
Beautiful Theater in downtown Joliet. The only bad thing I can say is parking is not the best ~ but that is what you get when you are in a downtown area. Great comedy show!
5. Chicago Street Pub
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4.5 based on 8 reviews
6. Route 66 Raceway
7. Joliet Slammers- DuPage Medical Group Field
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4.5 based on 44 reviews
DuPage Medical Group Field is home to the Joliet Slammers of the Frontier League. The Slammers are a professional baseball team and the 2018 Frontier League Champions.
Reviewed By V1752XRjamesc
Nice park to take in a relaxing ball game with a good view of the field and the concessions are fairly decent
8. St. Joseph Catholic Church
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4.5 based on 7 reviews
9. Joliet Area Historical Museum
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4.5 based on 116 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
The Joliet Area Historical Museum is worth visiting even if you never saw the Blues Brothers' movie or never drove on Route 66. Located at 204 Ottawa Street in Joliet, Illinois, Chicago's largest southwest suburb, it was established in 1977 and documents the history of Joliet and surrounding Will County. As an aside, there is a gift shop stuffed with Route 66 memorabilia and an opportunity to visit the nearby Collins Street Prison, another Blue Brothers trademark. I once spent a day at the prison. I was a batboy for an amateur baseball team that played against the prison team. But the museum isn't about the prison. It is about the history of the Joliet area, which dates to the 1600s. It has its own history, too. The building was formerly occupied by the Ottawa Street Methodist Church, which was designed by Joliet architect G. Julian Barnes and built in 1909. Located on one of the alternate paths of historic Route 66, the museum's ground floor features the Route 66 Welcome Center, which offers a display called the Route 66 Experience, highlighting the famous road that once connected Chicago through the southwest to California. There also is a dining room open to the public and staffed by Joliet Junior College's hospitality and culinary school students. Perhaps the most intriguing exhibit focuses on Joliet-raised and Joliet Junior College graduate John C. Houbolt, a NASA engineer honored as the chief conceptualizer of the lunar orbit rendezvous segment of the U.S. Apollo program and the use of a lunar module to shuttle astronauts to and from the surface of the Moon. The Joliet Area Historical Museum is proof that there are interesting museums this side of Chicago's Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry.
