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2. Kankakee, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   History Kankakee in 1936. The city's name is probably derived from a corrupted version of the Miami-Illinois word teeyaahkiki, meaning: "Open country/exposed land/land in open/land exposed to view", in reference to the area's prior status as a marsh. Kankakee was founded in 1854.

3. Kankakee Downtown Historic District - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Riverview Historic District (Kankakee, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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   August 22, 1986. Drs. John and Violet Brown House. The Riverview Historic District is a historic district in Kankakee, Illinois, United States. The 78.2-acre (31.6 ha) area around the Kankakee River is the oldest intact residential neighborhood in the city. It was originally settled by Emory Cobb, who used the land as pasture before deciding to ...

5. Kankakee County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Website. www .co .kankakee .il .us. Kankakee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 107,502. [1] Its county seat is Kankakee. [2] Kankakee County comprises the Kankakee, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area .

6. List of Illinois townships - Wikipedia

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   History. Local government in the Illinois Territory, and the state of Illinois after 1818 statehood, was predominantly handled by the state's counties, although towns and villages also existed. Chicago was chartered as the state's first city in 1837.

7. Kankakee River State Park - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Kankakee Township, Kankakee County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   60901. FIPS code. 17-091-38947. Kankakee Township is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 27,558 and it contained 11,219 housing units. [2] This township has the smallest area in the county, but is second largest in population.

9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Kankakee ...

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   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.