The New Student's Reference Work/Kankakee, Ill.

Kan'kakee', Ill., the capital of Kankakee County on the river of the same name, in northeastern Illinois, 55 miles south of Chicago. It is in a fine agricultural region, near considerable fields of coal, building-stone and bog-iron ore. Limestone is quarried also in the neighborhood. Here is the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane. The city is provided with excellent schools, both public and parochial, besides having a seminary (St. Joseph's) and a conservatory of music. It has several fine churches, a public library and a Y M. C. A. building. Kankakee possesses excellent waterpower for its industries, prominent among them being piano, wagon and furniture factories, a knittingworks, sewing-machine and agricu1tural implement works and foundry products Besides, it has flour-mills, starch works, cigar factories, and makes bricks, tiles, mattresses, etc. Kankakee has the service of the Illinois Central, and Big Four Rail-roads. Population 13,986.