Flowers for Joliet, IL

Joliet was built on limestone and the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and you can still read that history in the town — the yellow-stone buildings downtown, the shuttered Old Joliet Prison that half the country knows from the movies, the Rialto Square Theatre with its lobby like a cathedral, and Route 66 running its historic alignment straight through the middle. It is Will County's seat and one of the fastest-growing cities in the state, so the delivery map is a mix of eras: anniversary roses to the grand old homes of the Cathedral Area, get-well baskets to Ascension Saint Joseph on West Jefferson, congratulations bouquets to Joliet Junior College — the first community college in the nation — and steady runs to the new subdivisions spreading toward Shorewood and Crest Hill.

Palmer Florist Inc handles a large share of the Joliet ticket, a shop with a working list of customer reviews even though Google has not settled a star average on its card yet — which is exactly what its badge says, no more and no less. When downtown and the West Side both need same-day work on a busy Saturday, rated designers in New Lenox, Plainfield, and Lemont take the overflow, so a Joliet order is still arranged by a person minutes from the recipient rather than shipped flat from a distribution dock. Prices, ratings where they exist, and cutoffs sit in plain view, and the pick is yours to make.

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