{"id":768974,"date":"2026-05-02T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:00:20","slug":"joliet-will-close-chicago-street-to-bring-in-downtown-sculpture-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768974\/","title":{"rendered":"Joliet will close Chicago Street to bring in downtown sculpture \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">A section of Chicago Street will be closed Monday and Tuesday as parts of the new city sculpture are brought into the City Square in Joliet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">No through traffic will be allowed between Van Buren and Clinton streets, according to a news release from the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Sculpture parts built in China are being shipped to Joliet from the Port of Los Angeles, according to Lisa Dorothy, project manager for the City Square project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Those parts will be put together on the new City Square to create what is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/the-herald-news\/2025\/09\/17\/divided-joliet-city-council-approves-dome-of-unity-sculpture-for-downtown\/https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/the-herald-news\/2025\/09\/17\/divided-joliet-city-council-approves-dome-of-unity-sculpture-for-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/the-herald-news\/2025\/09\/17\/divided-joliet-city-council-approves-dome-of-unity-sculpture-for-downtown\/https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/the-herald-news\/2025\/09\/17\/divided-joliet-city-council-approves-dome-of-unity-sculpture-for-downtown\/\">the \u201cUnity Dome.\u201d <\/a>It is a sculpture designed to reflect various aspects of life in Joliet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of Chicago Street will be closed Monday and Tuesday as parts of the new city sculpture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":768975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[1037,648,1032,2451,1033,171,6390,728,18610,75391,314,67,132,68,17075],"class_list":["post-768974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-city","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-joliet","tag-local-news","tag-roads","tag-shaw-local-front-headlines","tag-traffic","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-will-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116506999164244689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}