Kankakee, Illinois, 1869 – Historic Map Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Kankakee, Illinois, 1869, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois 1869
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Kankakee, Illinois, 1869
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Kankakee, Illinois, in 1869 was a young railroad town on the Kankakee River, roughly fifty miles south of Chicago. Its growth dated to the Illinois Central Railroad, whose main line reached the settlement in the mid-1850s and made it a shipping point for grain and lumber bound for Chicago. Kankakee had recently become the seat of the county that bears its name, and its residents were building churches, stores, and businesses along the tracks as the prairie farms around them expanded. People who had lived through the Civil War had seen farm prices and freight traffic rise in its wake, and they knew the town mainly as a stop on the Illinois Central's long run south toward Cairo.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,768 × 7,056 px · prints to 29 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | IL-Kankakee-1869 |
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