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Granite City

American  

noun

  1. a city in SW Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.


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Residents of the Granite City finally glimpsed the sun late on Thursday afternoon.

From BBC

Celtic described it as "extremely regrettable" the match in the Granite City was postponed - "particularly at such a late stage".

From BBC

The 44-year-old mayor, married with two young children, spoke in his third-floor office of Minneapolis’ granite City Hall whose entrance features a statue of native son and liberal champion Hubert Humphrey.

From The Wall Street Journal

Steel notified about 800 workers at the Granite City plant that it planned to stop rolling slabs of steel from other plants into sheet steel.

From The Wall Street Journal

It said it now sees signs of rising demand that justify restarting one of Granite City’s two blast furnaces early next year to produce molten iron for steel.

From The Wall Street Journal