Morris

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
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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).