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Dr. Scobey was a surgeon who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad. 667 South Chicago Avenue (1912), Queen Anne. Magruder–Deselm House (c. 1895), Queen Anne. Henry A. Magruder was a clothier and Alderman of the Second Ward of Kankakee. He served as mayor from 1897 to 1899. Kankakee County Judge Arthur W. Deselm later purchased the house.
Kankakee (/ ˌ k æ ŋ k ə ˈ k iː / KANG-kə-KEE) [3] is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. [4] Located on the Kankakee River, as of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. [5] Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Kankakee River State Park is an Illinois state park on 4,000 acres (1,619 ha) primarily in Kankakee and Will Counties, Illinois, United States. Originally, 35 acres (14 ha) of land was donated by Ethel Sturges Dummer for the creation of the state park in 1938. Another 1,715 acres (694 ha) was donated by Commonwealth Edison in 1956, which again ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
The Kankakee Downtown Historic District is a national historic district in downtown Kankakee, Illinois. The district includes 73 buildings which form the commercial and governmental center of the city, most of which are grouped along Court Street and Schuyler Avenue. While development in the district began in the 1850s, the oldest surviving ...
17-091-58538. Pembroke Township is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,140 and it contained 1,062 housing units. [ 2] Pembroke Township was formed from parts of Momence township on February 17, 1877. From its beginning through today, Pembroke Township was a site of community ...
Kankakee Torrent. Coordinates: 41°25′12″N 88°12′39″W. Sandstone cliff at Starved Rock State Park, carved by the force of the Kankakee Torrent some 19,000 years ago. The Kankakee Torrent was a catastrophic flood that occurred about 19,000 calibrated years ago [1] in the Midwestern United States. It resulted from a breach of moraines ...
17-091-57017. Otto Township is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,582 and it contained 937 housing units. [ 2] It was formed from portions of Aroma and Limestone townships on December 11, 1855 as Carthage Township; its name was changed to Otto Township on March 11 ...