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With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21 ...
Bourbonnais Township (/ ˌ b ʊər b oʊ ˈ n eɪ, b ɜːr ˈ b oʊ n ɪ s / BOOR-boh-NAY, bur-BOH-niss [2]) is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 40,137 and it contained 15,153 housing units.
The original French pronunciation of Bourbonnais came to be Anglicized over time to / b ər ˈ b oʊ n ɪ s / bər-BOH-nis. In 1974, a state representative from Bourbonnais introduced a resolution "correcting" the pronunciation of the town's name to / b ɜːr b ə ˈ n eɪ / bur-bə-NAY, closer to the French. [10]
Ownership of the property was transferred to the Bourbonnais Township Park District in 1989, which developed the property as Perry Farm Park. The park features open recreation areas, four miles of walking trails, and the Exploration Station children's museum. The Perry Farm Living History Area includes the farmhouse, which now houses the Park ...
Ottawa is a city in and the county seat of LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.It is located at the confluence of the navigable Fox River and Illinois River, the latter being a conduit for river barges and connects Lake Michigan at Chicago, to the Mississippi River, and North America's 25,000 mile river system.
Its feeder districts are Bradley (61), Bourbonnais (53) and St. George (258) school districts. The student body is 71% White, 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 4% two or more races, 0.1% American Indian, and 0% Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander. 29% of students are minorities. 37% of students were eligible for the Free Lunch Program and 6% for ...
Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) is a private Nazarene university in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Named for its founding location, Olivet, Illinois, ONU was originally established as a grammar school in east-central Illinois in 1907. In the late 1930s, it moved to the campus in Bourbonnais.
At approximately 9:47 p.m. central (local) time on March 15, 1999, Amtrak's City of New Orleans number 59 was operating southbound through Bourbonnais, Illinois, on tracks owned by the Illinois Central Railroad, which folded into the Canadian National Railway in July of that year.