Madison County, Illinois
Granite City Real Estate and Local Guide
Historic steelmaking and industrial city in the Metro East, and the third-largest city in the region within the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Living in Granite City
Founded in 1896 as a planned company town named for the graniteware kitchenware manufactured there by the Niedringhaus brothers. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Homes in Granite City
Source: ACS 2023
What makes Granite City home
Old Six Mile Museum (Emmert-Zippel House)
Local history museum in an 1837 I-house listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Granite City Steel Works
Integrated steel mill that anchored the 1896 company town
Wilson Park
74-acre flagship park with a pool, ice rink, skate park, and a 1.4-mile paved trail
Horseshoe Lake State Park
State recreation area on a large oxbow lake with fishing, camping, and picnicking
Granite City areas to know
Lincoln Place
Historic immigrant neighborhood, formerly 'Hungary Hollow,' known for its Bulgarian and Eastern European community