Kankakee
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Outdoors in Kankakee
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1936
Illinois - Kankakee through Lebanon, 1936
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About Kankakee
City in Illinois, United StatesKankakee ( KANG-kə-KEE) is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. Located on the Kankakee River, as of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area. It serves as an anchor city in the rural plains outside Chicago.
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How Kankakee ranks
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Housing in Kankakee
The typical Kankakee home is worth about $155,000, up 4% in a year, 48% below the Illinois typical home.
Work & commute in Kankakee
Full picture →About one in 4 of Kankakee’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Kankakee (24%), Chicago (9%) and Bradley (7%). Half commute less than 23 miles.
Health in Kankakee
Health Grade D
Healthier than 6% of U.S. towns on seven CDC estimates.
Compared with Illinois
of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 10 are too close to call.
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Natural hazards in Kankakee
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 81% of U.S. communities.
Climate in Kankakee
Full climate →Kankakee has chilly winters and warm summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 85°, a January night drops to 17°, and about 21 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
Schools in Kankakee
All Kankakee schools →School Grade C-
The public schools Kankakee’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 78% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within IL. Ratings are from neighbors.
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