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Grundy County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 50,063.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/17/17063.html )〕 Its county seat is Morris.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Grundy County is part of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2010, the center of population of Illinois was located in Grundy County, just northeast of the village of Mazon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Centers of Population by State: 2010 )〕 Illinois's State Fossil, the unique and bizarre Tully Monster, was first found in Mazon Creek. Grundy County Speedway is located in Morris. Grundy County is also home to Dresden Generating Station—the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States—and the Morris Operation—the only de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States. ==History== Grundy County was established on February 17, 1841. It was formed out of LaSalle County and named after U.S. Attorney General Felix Grundy (1777-1840).〔 〕 The county was well known for its coal mines〔https://books.google.com/books?id=K3UUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5-IA3&lpg=PR5-IA3&dq=township+formation+grundy+co+il&source=bl&ots=4TvueknW_E&sig=DhwT0AhJOPH4gJlTYZMfc4agTyw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WW79VIecB9HkgwS60YPIDA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=township%20formation%20grundy%20co%20il&f=false History of Grundy County, Illinois: Containing a History from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... , Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers, Prominent Men, Etc, Volumes 1-2 (Google eBook) O.L. Basken & Company, Historical Publishers, 1882 - Grundy County (Ill.) - 518 pages〕 and attracted miners from Pennsylvania and other regions to work its deposits. Braidwood endured one major coal mining disaster.〔http://hinton-gen.com/coal/grundy_diamond.html〕 Most of the coal was destined for the Chicago area. File:Grundy County Illinois 1841.png|Grundy County at the time of its creation in 1841 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grundy County, Illinois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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