GRANITE CITY, a busy industrial city of Madison county, Ill., U.S.A., Iom. N. of Saint Louis, near the Mississippi river. It is served by the Chicago and Alton, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Big Four, the Illinois Traction (electric), the Saint Louis and Alton (electric), and the Wabash railways, and by five others for freight only. In 1900 the population was 3,122 ; in 1920, 14,757; and in 1930 it was 25,13o by the Federal census. There are steel foundries, rolling mills, car factories, syrup plants and many smaller manufacturing industries, with an aggregate output in 1927 valued at $43,880,522. The city was founded about 1893 and incorporated in 1896.