Place:Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States

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NameKankakee
TypeCity
Coordinates41.117°N 87.864°W
Located inKankakee, Illinois, United States
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Cemetery
Mound Grove Cemetery

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Kankakee is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. As of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. The city's name is probably derived from a corrupted version of the Miami-Illinois word , meaning: "Open country/exposed land/land in open/land exposed to view", in reference to the area's prior status as a marsh. Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area. It serves as an anchor city in the rural plains outside Chicago, similar to Aurora and Joliet.

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