LOCKPORT, a handsome post-village of Lockport township, Will co., Illinois, on the Des Plaines river, and on the Illinois and Michigan canal, 32 miles S. W. from Chicago. It is a place of active business, possessing extensive water-power, and quarries of good building stone. The general office of the canal company is located here. Population in 1853, estimated at 2000. A newspaper is published here weekly. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
LOCKPORT A handsome post village of Lockport township, Will county, on the Des Plaines river, the Illinois and Michigan canal, and on the line of the Chicago and Joliet railroad, about 30 miles south-west from Chicago. It is a place of active business, possessing extensive water power, and quarries of good building stone. The place is rapidly advancing in wealth and population, and the recent opening of the railroad through it will tend greatly to add to its present prosperity. Patrick O'Mara, Postmaster. (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer..., 1859)