Braidwood
Braidwood is a city in Will and Grundy counties, Illinois, United States, approximately 53 miles southwest of Chicago and 18 miles south of Joliet. The population was 6,191 at the 2010 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 6,190 residents
- Description: city in Will County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Braidwood, IL”, “Braidwood, Illinois”, and “City of Braidwood”
- Postal code: 60408
Places of Interest
Highlights include Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station.
Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station
Power station
Braidwood Generating Station is located in Will County in northeastern Illinois, U.S. The nuclear power plant serves Chicago and northern Illinois with electricity. Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station is situated 1½ miles southwest of Braidwood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Godley and Diamond.
Godley
Village
Godley is a village in Grundy and Will counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 566 at the 2020 census. Godley is situated 2½ miles southwest of Braidwood.
Diamond
Hamlet
Diamond is a village in Grundy and Will Counties, Illinois. The population was 2,640 at the 2020 census. Diamond is situated 2½ miles northwest of Braidwood.
Lakewood Shores
Hamlet
Lakewood Shores is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Will County, Illinois, United States. The population was 665 at the 2020 census. Lakewood Shores is situated 3½ miles east of Braidwood.
Braidwood
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Reed Township, Will, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.26503° or 41° 15′ 54″ northLongitude
-88.21228° or 88° 12′ 44″ westPopulation
6,190Elevation
577 feet (176 metres)United Nations Location Code
US 6BWOpen location code
86HH7Q8Q+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 153717819OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Braidwood” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريدوود”
- Basque: “Braidwood”
- Catalan: “Braidwood”
- Cebuano: “Braidwood”
- Chechen: “Брейдвуд”
- Chinese: “Braidwood”
- Chinese: “布雷德伍德 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “布雷德伍德”
- Croatian: “Braidwood”
- Danish: “Braidwood”
- Dutch: “Braidwood”
- French: “Braidwood”
- German: “Braidwood”
- Gilaki: “بریدوۊد (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “بریدوۊد”
- Haitian: “Braidwood, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Braidwood”
- Irish: “Braidwood”
- Italian: “Braidwood”
- Ladin: “Braidwood”
- Mazanderani: “بریدوود (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “بریدوود”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Braidwood”
- Newari: “ब्रेइडवूड (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “ब्रेइडवूड, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “ब्रेइडवूड, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “ब्रेइडवूड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Braidwood”
- Persian: “بریدوود، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “بریدوود”
- Polish: “Braidwood”
- Portuguese: “Braidwood”
- Serbian: “Брејдвуд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Braidwood, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Braidwood”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریدوود، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Braidwood”
- Swedish: “Braidwood, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Braidwood”
- Tatar: “Брейдвуд”
- Ukrainian: “Брейдвуд”
- Urdu: “بریڈووڈ، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “بریڈووڈ”
- Uzbek: “Braidwood”
- Uzbek: “Браидwоод”
- Vietnamese: “Braidwood, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Braidwood”
- Volapük: “Braidwood”
- Welsh: “Braidwood, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Braidwood”
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