Kankakee, Illinois

==History==
[[File:Illinois - Kankakee through Lebanon - NARA - 23939861 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Kankakee in 1936]]
The city's name is probably derived from a corrupted version of the [[Miami-Illinois language|Miami-Illinois]] word ''{{lang|mia|teeyaahkiki}}'', meaning: "Open country/exposed land/land in open/land exposed to view",<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8uvs6Qw3pEC&q=%22Miami-Illinois+teeyaahkiki%22&pg=PA57 |title=Native American Place Names of Indiana |first=Michael |last=McCafferty|date=April 29, 2018 |publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03268-4 |access-date=April 29, 2018 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8uvs6Qw3pEC&q=%22it+is+wolf+country%22+mahweehkiki&pg=PA60|title=Native American Place Names of Indiana|first=Michael|last=McCafferty|date=April 29, 2018|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03268-4|access-date=April 29, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDvWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+Indian+name%22+%22of+the+Kankakee%2C+from+the+two+words%22&pg=PA15|title=Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee|first=Jacob Lorenzo|last=Werich|date=April 29, 2018|publisher=Chronicle Printing Company|access-date=April 29, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SUVAAAAYAAJ&q=theakeke&pg=PA70 |title=Notes on the Northwest: Or, Valley of the Upper Mississippi|first=William John Alden|last=Bradford|date=April 29, 2018|publisher=Wiley and Putnam|isbn=978-0-608-43884-9|access-date=April 29, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>Johnson, Vic. 1994. "L'Riviere Theakiki--'The Fabulous River of 2,000 Bends{{'"}}, ''[[Daily Journal (Illinois)|The Daily Journal]]'' (July 31, 1994), p. 24.</ref><ref>Temple, Wayne C. 1958. [http://www.museum.state.il.us/publications/epub/indian_villages_il_country_wayne_temple.pdf Indian Villages of the Illinois Country] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704042459/http://www.museum.state.il.us/publications/epub/indian_villages_il_country_wayne_temple.pdf |date=July 4, 2015 }}. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, vol. 2, Part 2, p. 145, fn 104</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FG25wiLGanoC&dq=%22quin-que-que%22&pg=PA623 Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Kankakee County ], Volume 2, Issue 1, edited by Newton Bateman, Paul Selby ; edited by William F. Kenaga, George R. Letourneau, p. 623.</ref> in reference to the area's prior status as a marsh. Kankakee was founded in 1854.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://graveyards.com/IL/Kankakee/moundgrove/|title=Mound Grove Cemetery|website=graveyards.com|access-date=April 29, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429232517/http://graveyards.com/IL/Kankakee/moundgrove/|archive-date=April 29, 2018}}</ref>