Kankakee

[kang-kuh-kee]

noun

1. a city in NE Illinois.

Example Sentences

In Bourbonnais/Kankakee, two towns so near each other in Illinois that they’re basically the same place, Jaenicke’s is all that’s left of my home now that the majority of my core family has passed on.

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The original location at 390 E. River St. in Kankakee was the passion project of the grandparents of Kris’ husband Alan Jaenicke and the keys were handed down the family line until eventually one of Alan’s younger sisters sold out.

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The retired longtime Kankakee County judge is a Republican.

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About 30 migrants from Venezuela were recently dropped off at 4:30 a.m. at a gas station in Kankakee County, according to Sheriff Mike Downey.

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Obama also appeared this summer in TikTok videos in collaboration with public libraries in Illinois, Maryland and Texas, and the Illinois Kankakee Public Library’s video highlighted their goal of providing access to banned books.

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