Kankakee, IL

KANKAKEE CITY, capital of Kankakee county, Illinois, on the right bank of Kankakee river, at the point where the Chicago and Illinois railroad crosses this stream.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

KANKAKEE CITY   Capital of Kankakee county, is situated on the right bank of Kankakee river at the point where the Chicago branch of the Illinois Central railroad crosses that stream.  [note.—Arrangements were made with one of the citizens, to furnish the statistics of this city, but owing to a neglect on his part to do so, we are unable to give them satisfactorily].  (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)