Joliet Army Ammunition Plant (
JOAAP, formerly known as the
Joliet Arsenal) was a
United States Army arsenal located in
Will County, Illinois, near
Elwood, Illinois, south of
Joliet, Illinois. Opened in 1940 during
World War II, the facility consisted of the Elwood Ordnance Plant (EOP) and the Kankakee Ordnance Works (KNK). In 1945, the two were deactivated and combined forming the Joliet Arsenal. The plant was reactivated for the Korean War and renamed Joliet Army Ammunition Plant during the
Vietnam War. Production of
TNT ended in 1976, and the major plant operations closed shortly after in the late 1970s. The facility briefly revived an automated load-assemble-pack (LAP) artillery shell operation that was managed by the
Honeywell Corporation during the Reagan administration in the 1980s before it was finally closed.