Kankakee Area

The Kankakee Area is in Kankakee County, part of the Chicagoland region of Illinois.

Do

• Kankakee River State Park

Cities

• 1 Kankakee- the county seat
• 2 Momence- home to Bordertown Guns

Villages

• 3 Aroma Park - home to a boat club.
• 4 Bourbonnais - the former summer home of the Chicago Bears.
• 5 Bradley- home to a growing business sector.
• 6 Hopkins Park- the poorest area in Kankakee County.
• 7 Limestone- once meant to be the county seat, now a small rural village.
• 8 Manteno- very similar to Bradley.
• Bonfield- Known locally for its feuding families, conservative attitude, and its ban on alcohol. According to the book Wild Kankakee by Jim Ridings, the town is named after Thomas A. Bonfield, a lawyer who named the town for himself after renaming the train station to "Bonfield," despite the fact that the post office was named Verkler.
• Sun River Terrace- home to a large population of African Americans and about 390 people.
• Sammons Point- built to stop the spread of a nearby landfill.
• Union Hill- home to a tractor dealer.
• Irwin- the birthplace of Art Ward, though there is nothing there in his memory.
• Rockville- the only remaining town in the Kankakee Area that was founded by Indians.

Go next

• Iroquois County