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When the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities was abolished in 1909, the institute was reorganized and renamed Kankakee State Hospital, effective January 1, 1910. In 1917, the Department of Public Welfare assumed responsibility for the Kankakee State Hospital and retained control until the creation of the Department of Mental Health ...
John Benoit (1951–2016), California state legislator, was born in Kankakee. [6] Edward McBroom (1925–1990), Illinois state legislator and businessman [7] Mary K. O'Brien (born 1965), Illinois state legislator and judge, was born in Kankakee. [8] Daniel H. Paddock (1852–1905), Illinois state representative and lawyer, lived in Kankakee. [9]
Kankakee Downtown Historic District: June 11, 2018 : Roughly bounded by West Ave. and Oak, Indiana, and Station Sts. Kankakee: 10: Kankakee State Hospital Historic District: Kankakee State Hospital Historic District: August 4, 1995
Kankakee (/ ˌkæŋkəˈkiː / 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. It serves as an anchor city in the ...
Stephen B. Small. Stephen Burrell Small (18 March 1947 – 2 September 1987) was a prominent American businessman in Kankakee, Illinois. In 1987, he was kidnapped and held for ransom by Danny Edwards and Nancy Rish. The conditions of his confinement caused him to die of asphyxiation.
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (28 December 1816 – 25 July 1897), also known as E.P.W. Packard, was an American advocate for the rights of women and people perceived to have insanity. [1][2][3] She was wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her husband, who claimed that she had been insane for more than three years.
Margaret Chung. October 2, 1889 – January 5, 1959), born in Santa Barbara, California, was the first known American-born Chinese female physician. After graduating from the University of Southern California Medical School [1] in 1916 and completing her internship and residency in Illinois, she established one of the first Western medical ...