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Online Data

Towns

Biographies

Cemeteries Burials in St. James Cemetery

Churches

Court Records

Deaths (Updated!!)

1917 Farmer Directory - (A & B surnames)

Kankakee County Residents in the 1880 Census of Patients at the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane

History

Land Records

Marriages

Newspaper Articles

Obituaries

Kankakee Residents in the Joliet Prison Convict Register

Resources & Links

Data Found At Illinois Genealogy Trails' Main Website:

Illinois Trails Military Data - Revolutionary, War of 1812, Civil War, Korean, WWII

Illinois Genealogy Trails Census - Census data currently online for all of our counties

Illinois State Data - Includes History, Maps, Convict Register Project and more!

Illinois Events - Includes information on Slavery, Epidemics and more!

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