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Kankakee County, Illinois

Kankakee County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Kankakee
Year Organized: 1853
Square Miles: 678
 
Court House:

189 E. Court Street, 5th Floor
County Courthouse
Kankakee, IL 60901-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Native American tribe.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Kankakee County was created on February 11, 1853 (Laws, 1853, p. 159) and was formed from Ford, Iroquois and Will Counties. Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in: Will County (1836–1853), Iroquois County (1833–1853), Vermilion County (1826–1835), Edgar County (1823–1825), Fulton County (1823–1825), Clark County (1819–1823), Crawford County (1816–1819), Edwards County (1815–1816), Madison County (1812–1815), St. Clair County (1801–1812) and Knox, Northwest Territory (1790–1801).

The County was named for an Indian name given to a river rising in northern Indiana and flowing 225 miles southwest to join the Des Plaines River and form the Illinois River in northeast Illinois. The name of the river was transferred to the county. The County Seat is Kankakee (Name changed from Kankakee Depot in 1855.) .
 

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 681 square miles (1,765 kmē), of which, 677 square miles (1,753 kmē) of it is land and 5 square miles (12 kmē) of it (0.69%) is water.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • Northeast: Lake County, Ind.
  • Southeast: Newton County, Ind.
  • South: Iroquois County
  • Southwest: Ford County; Livingston County
  • Northwest: Grundy County; Will County
Cities and Towns:
- Aroma township  
- Aroma Park village Incorporated Area
- Bonfield village Incorporated Area
- Bourbonnais village Incorporated Area
- Bradley village Incorporated Area
- Buckingham village Incorporated Area
- Essex village Incorporated Area
- Ganeer township  
- Grant Park village Incorporated Area
- Herscher village Incorporated Area
- Hopkins Park village Incorporated Area
- Irwin village Incorporated Area
- Kankakee (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Limestone township  
- Manteno village Incorporated Area
- Momence city Incorporated Area
- Norton township  
- Otto township  
- Pembroke township  
- Pilot township  
- Reddick village Incorporated Area
- Rockville township  
- Salina township  
- St. Anne village Incorporated Area
- Sun River Terrace village Incorporated Area
- Union Hill village Incorporated Area
- Yellowhead township
County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

 

 

 

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