Morris, Illinois

Morris
City
The Morris Downtown Commercial Historic District
Location of Morris in Grundy County, Illinois.
Location of Illinois in the United States
Coordinates: 41°22′28″N 88°25′48″W / 41.37444°N 88.43000°W / 41.37444; -88.43000[1]
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Grundy
Townships	Morris, Erienna, Saratoga, Wauponsee
Founded	1842
Area [2]
• Total	11.64 sq mi (30.15 km2)
• Land	11.28 sq mi (29.22 km2)
• Water	0.36 sq mi (0.93 km2)
Elevation [1]	515 ft (157 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	14,163
• Density	1,255.25/sq mi (484.65/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP Code(s)	60450
Area codes	815/779
FIPS code	17-50491
GNIS feature ID	2395407[1]
Wikimedia Commons	Morris, Illinois
Website	morrisil.org
[3]

Morris is a city in and the county seat of Grundy County, Illinois, United States and part of the southwest Chicago metropolitan area. The population was 14,163 as of the 2020 census.^[4]

A team of ten anthropologists and sociologists from nearby University of Chicago studied the city in depth and reported its findings in W. Lloyd Warner, editor, Democracy in Jonesville: A Study of Quality and Inequality (1949).^[5]