KANKAKEE  , a

city and the county-seat of Kankakee county, Illinois, U.S.A., in the N.E. part of the state, on the Kankakee river, 56 m S. of Chicago . Pop . (1900), 13,595, of whom 3346 were foreign-born; (19ro census), 13,986 . Kankakee is served by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Illinois Central, and the Chicago, Indiana & Southern (con-trolled by the New York Central) railways . It is the seat of the Eastern Hospital for the Insane (1899) a state institution; St Joseph's Seminary (Roman Catholic) and a Conservatory of Music . At Bourbonnais Grove, 3 M . N. of Kankakee is St Viateur's College (founded r868), a well-known Roman Catholic divinity school, and Notre Dame Academy, another Catholic institution . The city has a public library and four large parks; in Court House Square there is a monument erected by popular subscription in honour of the soldiers from Kankakee county who died in the Civil War . There are rock quarries here, and the city manufactures sewing machines, musical instruments, especially pianos, foundry and machine shop products, agricultural implements and furniture . The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,089,143, an increase of 222 °fo since 1900 . Kankakee is also a shipping point for agricultural products . It was first settled in 1832; was platted as the 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 .