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KANKAKEE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Kankakee county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., in the N.E. See also:part of the See also:state, on the Kankakee See also:river, 56 m S. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1900), 13,595, of whom 3346 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (19ro See also:census), 13,986. Kankakee is served by the See also:Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, Chicago & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, the Illinois Central, and the Chicago, See also:Indiana & See also:Southern (See also:con-trolled by the New See also:York Central) See also:railways. It is the seat of the Eastern See also:Hospital for the Insane (1899) a state institution;
St See also:Joseph's See also:Seminary (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) and a Conservatory of See also:Music. At Bourbonnais See also:Grove, 3 M. N. of Kankakee is St Viateur's See also:College (founded r868), a well-known Roman Catholic divinity school, and Notre See also:Dame See also:Academy, another Catholic institution. The city has a public library and four large parks; in See also:Court See also:House Square there is a See also:monument erected by popular subscription in See also:honour of the soldiers from Kankakee county who died in the See also:Civil See also:War. There are See also:rock quarries here, and the city manufactures sewing See also:machines, musical See also:instruments, especially pianos, foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products, agricultural implements and See also:furniture. The See also:total value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,089,143, an increase of 222 °fo since 1900. Kankakee is also a See also:shipping point for agricultural products. It was first settled in 1832; was platted as the See also:town of Bourbonnais in 1853, when Kankakee county was first organized; was chartered as the city of Kankakee in 1855, and was re-chartered in 1892.
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