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A mid-1800’s architectural wonder helped make Chicago the city it is today. The 96-mile Illinois & Michigan Canal (I&M Canal) connected the Great Lakes in Bridgeport, Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle-Peru, and amazingly unique towns sprung up that maintain their authentic charm to this date.
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READ ON!Get excited for Joliet Area Restaurant Week 2020, happening February 1-13. Some of your favorite restaurants are back again this year, along with a few new ones that will have your taste buds dancing.
This year, we are excited to include a digital passport that you can easily download onto your smart phone. Each restaurant will be featured on the app along with their dinning deal.
You can use this app to check yourself into each restaurant. Every check-in gets you another entry into our raffle where you can win over $1000 in gift cards to all of these restaurants! To be notified when the passport goes live, please click on this link (you will be directed to a Google form).
Check out the participating restaurants this year:
We will also have a paper copy of the passport for anyone who would like to use that instead. In this case, you will collect stickers at each of the restaurants, then mail it back to us.
For more information about our Joliet Area Restaurant Week, you can visit www.jolietarearestaurantweek.com. Don’t forget to hashtag #JARW when posting great photos of your food on your social media!
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