La Salle, a city of Illinois, at the head of steam-navigation on the Illinois River (here crossed by bridges), 99 miles by rail WSW. of Chicago, with which it is also connected by the Illinois Canal. Bituminous coal is mined here, and the city has a large zinc-rolling mill and smelting-furnaces, besides manufactures of glass and iron wares. Pop. 7847.
La Salle,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 523
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