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The Lemont limestone story begins eons before there was a Chicago with a Water Tower and Holy Name Cathedral, both built with locally mined stone that slowly turns from white to yellowish. Four hundred million years ago, give or take a few, a vast inland sea covered the site of Bromberek Flagstone in Joliet. It was dense with aquatic life. “We find fossils and stuff,” Larry Bromberek, the ...
The Lemont limestone story begins eons before there was a Chicago with a Water Tower and Holy Name Cathedral, both built with locally mined stone that slowly turns from white to yellowish. Four hundred million years ago, give or take a few, a vast inland sea covered the site of Bromberek Flagstone in Joliet. It was dense with aquatic life. “We find fossils and stuff,” Larry Bromberek, the ...