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The Kankakee River Basin drains 2,989 square miles (7,740 km 2) in northwest Indiana, 2,169 square miles (5,620 km 2) in northeast Illinois, and about seven square miles (18 km 2) in southwest Lower Michigan. The Kankakee River heads near South Bend, then flows westward into Illinois, where it joins with the Des Plaines River to form the Illinois.
IL 102 runs parallel to and north of the Kankakee River for its entire length. For two miles (3.2 km), IL 102 is located next to the Kankakee River State Park. Entrances to the park's two major campgrounds are located off Illinois 102. IL 113 takes a mostly parallel route, but on the south side of the river.
Kankakee River State Park is an Illinois state park on 4,000 acres (1,619 ha) primarily in Kankakee and Will Counties, Illinois, United States. Originally, 35 acres (14 ha) of land was donated by Ethel Sturges Dummer for the creation of the state park in 1938.
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.
English Lake is an unincorporated community in Railroad Township, Starke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana, located along the Kankakee River. [1] It is a small community of only a few hundred individuals. It is named for English Lake, which once existed at the junction of the Yellow River with the Kankakee.
The Kankakee River, Du Page River and the Des Plaines River run through the county and join on its western border. The Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal run through Will County. A number of areas are preserved as parks (over 20,000 acres (81 km 2) total) under the Forest Preserve District of Will County.
Drs. John and Violet Brown House. The Riverview Historic District is a historic district in Kankakee, Illinois, United States.The 78.2-acre (31.6 ha) area around the Kankakee River is the oldest intact residential neighborhood in the city.
SBI Route 113 was the name of both roads on the north and south sides of the Kankakee River from Diamond (between Coal City and Braidwood on Interstate 55) to Kankakee.In 1940, the route became Illinois Route 113N and Illinois Route 113S, with 113N as the northern route and 113S as the southern, with 113S used as the western end to U.S. Route 66 (now Interstate 55).