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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.
Location of Kankakee County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kankakee County, Illinois. 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 ...
William R. Hunter was the Kankakee City Attorney and later judge on the Illinois Circuit Court. Albert F. Hattenburg was mayor of Kankakee from 1937 to 1953. Wayne H. Dyer House (1910), American Foursquare with Prairie School details designed by local architect C.D. Henry who also designed the Volkmann building and the Masonic Temple, among ...
Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District, Logan County East Dubuque School, Jo Daviess County Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Kankakee County, Illinois" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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.
The Washington County Historical Society was organized during a meeting in this building, the original site of the Washington County Free Library, at 21 Summit Ave. in Hagerstown.
Lemuel Milk moved to Kankakee, Illinois from New York around 1855. An early settler to the area, Milk was among the first to drain the Kankakee region for farming. By purchasing cheap, swampy land for draining, Milk was able to amass a large estate exceeding 25,000 acres (10,000 ha). This made him one of the largest landowners in Illinois.