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city of La Salle county, Illinois, U.S.A., on the Vermilion river, in the N. part of the state, about 95 M . S.W. of Chicago . Pop . (1890), 11,414; (1900), 14,079, of whom 3740 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 1a _",3; land area, Small portion of surface of hop leaf showing the fructification or perithecia (p) of the fungus attached to the surface; h, a hair of the leaf surface. s, A single perithecium bursting: 2, a chain of spores or conidia . (t and 2 X 400.) 2.97 sq . M . It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago & Alton, the Chicago, Indiana & Southern and the Wabash railways . Streator has a public library and a Chautauqua auditorium . It is in the Vermilion coal region, and clay for brick and tile is abundant in its vicinity . The city's manufactures include glass, brick, tile, foundry and machine-shop products, &c . In 19o5 the factory product was valued at $1,888,894, being 51.4% greater than in 19oo . Streator was laid out in 1868, was incorporated as a village in 187o and was chartered as a city in 1882 .