Kankakee', ILL., the county-seat of Kankakee co., on the Kankakee River and on the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis and other railroads. The city is in an agricultural region. The most important manufactures are agricultural implements, furniture, wagons, shoes and starch. There are also extensive limestone quarries and brick and tile yards in the vicinity. It is the seat of the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane. Other fine buildings are the Arcade, the county jail, the opera house, the public library, a conservatory of music and the Y. M. C. A. building. Saint Viateur's College, a prominent Roman Catholic divinity school, is located at Bourbonnais Grove, a suburb three miles distant. Kankakee was settled in 1853 and was incorporated the next year. Population in 1910, 13,986.