WebThe Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River and is approximately 273 miles (439 km) long. The Illinois River begins at the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers in the Chicago metropolitan area, and it generally flows to the southwest across Illinois, until it empties into the Mississippi near …

WebKankakee / ˌ k æ ŋ k ə ˈ k iː / is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. As of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. 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

WebThe county was named for the Kankakee River. Kankakee County at the time of its creation in 1853 Geography. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 681 square miles (1,760 km 2), of which 677 square miles (1,750 km 2) is land and 4.8 square miles (12 km 2) (0.7%) is water. Climate ...

WebCambridge is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, located at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers. The city had a population of 138,479 as of the 2021 census. Along with Kitchener and Waterloo, Cambridge is one of the three core cities of Canada's tenth-largest metropolitan area.. Cambridge was formed in 1973 by the …

WebNational protected area. Great River National Wildlife Refuge (part); Climate and weather. In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Quincy have ranged from a low of 16 °F (−9 °C) in January to a high of 88 °F (31 °C) in July, although a record low of −21 °F (−29 °C) was recorded in January 1979 and a record high of 105 °F (41 °C) was recorded …

WebLincoln's New Salem State Historic Site is a reconstruction of the former village of New Salem in Menard County, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. While in his twenties, the future U.S. President made his living in this village as a boatman, soldier in the Black Hawk War, general store owner, postmaster, surveyor, and rail splitter, and was …

WebThe Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site / k ə ˈ h oʊ k i ə / is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri.This historic park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville.At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square …

WebThe Des Plaines River (/ d ɪ s ˈ p l eɪ n z /) is a river that flows southward for 133 miles (214 km) through southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois in the United States Midwest, eventually meeting the Kankakee River west of Channahon to form the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River.. Native Americans used the river as transportation …

WebJackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois with a population of 52,974 at the 2020 census. Its county seat is Murphysboro, and its most populous city is Carbondale, home to the main campus of Southern Illinois University.The county was incorporated on January 10, 1816, and named for Andrew Jackson.The community of Brownsville served …

WebThe New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, …