Ballou is an

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in southern Will County,

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. It is located three miles southeast of the city of Wilmington in Wesley Township. Ballou is home to only a few houses and a grain elevator that serves the area farms. Other than the eponymous Ballou Road, a two-lane country road, there are no city streets or services. A railroad track that formerly crossed Ballou Road next to the grain elevator was dismantled in the 1990s.

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Unincorporated communities in Will County, Illinois Unincorporated communities in Illinois {{WillCountyIL-geo-stub