Kankakee Area
The Kankakee Area is in Kankakee County, part of the Chicagoland region of Illinois.
Cities
Villages
- 🌍 Aroma Park - home to a boat club
- 🌍 Bourbonnais - the summer home of the Chicago Bears
- 🌍 Bradley- home to a growing business sector
- 🌍 Hopkins Park- the poorest area in Kankakee County
- 🌍 Limestone- home to Vana's Pumpkin Patch
- 🌍 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.
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