Let's Talk Kankakee County History

The new Montgomery Ward store, viewed across Schuyler Avenue in 1938. The Kankakee store of Ward’s major competitor, Sears, Roebuck &...

This towering dragline crane strips off overburden, 30 cubic feet at a time, to expose the coal seam at a Peabody Coal Co. strip-mining...

S. M. Hawk published the sheet music for his composition, “On The Beautiful Kankakee” in 1911. (Kankakee County Museum Photo Archive) By...

Early in the morning of November 28, 1946, Kankakee’s Labor Temple at Court Street and Washington Avenue was destroyed by fire. Four...