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CITIES, AMERICAN. (KANKAKEE.) 



the plant, which is owned by the city, was $155,- 

 000. Gas and electricity are employed in light- 

 ing, and there is a system of street railroad. 

 Four banks have an aggregate capital of $350,- 

 000, and there are 8 building and loan associa- 

 tions. Two daily, 1 semiweekly, and 4 weekly 

 newspapers are published. The Southwestern 

 Baptist University is here, which has an attend- 



the Kankakee and Southwestern Railroads. The 

 population in 1890 was 9,025, an increase of 

 59-71 per cent, over 5,651 in 1880. There are 10 

 miles of electric street railway, and 20 miles of 

 sewers ; the water works (gravity system) cost 

 $150,000, and have a reservoir with a capacity 

 of 300,000 gallons, with 15 miles of mains. The 

 supply is drawn from Kankakee river. The fire 



FEMALE INSTITUTE, JACKSON, TENNESSEE. 



ance of 250 students, and there is a female insti- 

 tute under the control of the Methodist Church, 

 South ; the Roman Catholics have 2 flourish- 

 ing parochial schools, and the public schools 

 had in 1889 an enrollment of 1,414 in 5 build- 

 ings. Lane Institute is a colored school under 

 the charge of Bishop Lane. The various re- 

 ligious denominations are represented. The 

 Supreme Court of the State for the western di- 

 vision sits in Jackson, as does the United States 

 District and Circuit Court for the eastern divi- 

 sion of West Tennessee. The Federal courthouse 

 and post-office building cost $85,000. The in- 

 dustries of the city include 3 foundries and ma- 

 chine shops, 3 planing and 2 large flouring mills, 

 a cotton compress, a gin factory, a large cotton- 

 seed-oil mill, a fertilizer factory, a steam-printing 

 house, a woolen mill, 2 ice factories, 1 of hoops, 

 1 of spokes, 1 of plows, 3 brickyards, 1 hard- 

 wood and ornamental furniture factory, 1 cigar 

 factory, and 1 bottling works. Between 17,000 

 and 20,000 bales of cotton are marketed here 

 yearly. The Board of Trade numbers about 100 

 members. Timber abounds in the county, which 

 is well watered, and produces, in addition to cot- 

 ton, fruits and vegetables of all kinds, which are 

 shipped to northern markets. Jackson is known 

 as the " Rose City," from its charming gardens, 

 and the streets are lined with shade trees. 



Kankakee, a city of Illinois, county seat of 

 Kankakee County, in the northern part of the 

 State, 56 miles south of Chicago, on Kankakee 

 river, and the Illinois Central, Big Four, Indiana, 

 Illinois and Iowa, the Kankakee and Seneca, and 



department has an electric alarm system, and 

 gas and electricity are employed in illumination. 

 There is an $80,000 summer hotel, a country 

 courthouse, an arcade building and opera house 

 which cost $100,000, 13 churches, a high school, 

 5 public-school buildings with an enrollment of 

 1,200, 4 parochial schools (French and German 

 Catholic, German Baptist, and German Evan- 

 gelical), and a Catholic seminary ; also a busi- 

 ness college. Two of the 3 banks are national, 

 and the total of banking capital is $250,000. 

 The city has also 4 building and loan associa- 

 tions, and a Business Men's Association. Two 

 daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published, 

 and there is a Ladies' Library Association. Six- 

 teen organizations of secret and benevolent or- 

 ders are represented here. An infantry company 

 of the State National Guard has a fine armory, 

 and a soldier's monument has been erected at 

 a cost of $5,000. The streets are luxuriantly 

 shaded, and there is a public fountain. There 

 are many handsome residences. Free mail de- 

 livery has been established. Pleasure steamers 

 ply on the river, the driving park association 

 has a kite-shaped track, and the county fair 

 grounds are here. The city is the site of the 

 Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane, valued 

 at $1.500,000, which has 2,000 inmates. There 

 is also a county infirmary. The industries in- 

 clude a paper mill, a shoe factory, a flouring mill, 

 a foundry and machine shops, extensive stone 

 quarries, 2 tile and brick works, transfer ele- 

 vators, a tannery, a planing mill, an ice factory, 

 refrigerator works, a nail factory, an oil mill, 6 



