Kankakee is a
city in Kankakee County, Illinois, in the United States.
As of the 2000 census, the city population was 25,561.
It is the county seat of Kankakee County[1]. Kankakee
is a principal city of the Kankakee Bradley Metropolitan
Statistical Area, which includes all of Kankakee County.
The county is also part of the larger Chicago–Naperville–Michigan
City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area. Library service
is provided by the Kankakee Public Library.
Amtrak, the national passenger
rail service, provides service to Kankakee. Amtrak Train
59, the southbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled
to depart Kankakee at 9:23pm daily with service to Champaign-Urbana,
Mattoon, Effingham, Centralia, Carbondale, Fulton, Newbern-Dyersburg,
Memphis, Greenwood, Yazoo City, Jackson, Hazlehurst,
Brookhaven, McComb, Hammond, and New Orleans. Amtrak
Train 58, the northbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled
to depart Kankakee at 7:13am daily with service to Homewood
and Chicago. Kankakee is also served by Amtrak Train
390/391, the Saluki, daily in the morning, and Amtrak
Train 392/393, the Illini, daily in the afternoon/evening.
Both the Saluki and the Illini operate between Chicago
and Carbondale.
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