page_title: Kankakee, Illinois
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Kankakee, Illinois / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kankakee, Illinos aus der Luft (Blick in westliche Richtung). Links im Bild der Zusammenfluss von Iroquois River und Kankakee River. Die Interstate 57 laeuft durch das Bild. English: Aerial photo of Kankakee, Illinois (looking westward). The confluence of Iroquois River and Kankakee River is visible on the left edge of the frame. Interstate 57 is running from right to left (north-south) through the image, the four lane road in east-west direction is Illinois Route 17.
context_page_description: Kankakee is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The city's name is probably derived from the Miami-Illinois word teeyaahkiki, meaning: "Open country/exposed land/land in open/land exposed to view", in reference to the area's prior status as a marsh. As of 2019, the city's population was 26,024. 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, similar to Aurora and Joliet.
caption: Aerial view of Kankakee. The confluence of Iroquois River and Kankakee River is visible on the left edge of the frame.
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