Bourbonnais, Illinois Official name: Village of Bourbonnais Location of Bourbonnais inside Illinois Location of Illinois in the United States Bourbonnais (pronounced /b rbo ne / or /b r bo n s/) is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States.
The village is titled after Francois Bourbonnais, Sr., a fur trapper, hunter and agent of the American Fur Company, who had married a Native American woman and appeared in the region near the fork of two primary Indian trails and the Kankakee River about 1830. John Jacob Astor had established the business in 1808, and when the United States banned foreign (i.e.
In 1832, Noel Le - Vasseur appeared as the firm's small-town agent, established a trading post, and became the area's first permanent non-Native American settler.
Bourbonnais, Sr.) and Manteno (daughter of Francois Bourbonnais, Jr.). Le - Vasseur received considerable territory through a series of shrewd trades, and eventually divorced Watseka and married a Canadian woman titled Ruth. After establishment of the new Catholic diocese of Chicago missionary Fr.
In 1853, the Illinois council split Iroquois County, and Bourbonnais Grove became part of new Kankakee County.
Because the Illinois Central Railroad ran through Kankakee, established in 1854, it became the county seat, with Bourbonnais Grove as one of a several townships.
After a popular vote in 1875, the settlement incorporated as the Village of Bourbonnais, with George R.
Le - Vasseur died, aged 80, four years later. Le - Tourneau also became mayor and sheriff of Kankakee as well as state senator; his home (begun in 1837 and with renovations instead of in 1866) eventually became command posts of the small-town historical society, which is also restoring the garden and close-by arboretum. After enrollment declines in the early 20th century, in 1940 the Catholic establishments were bought out by what became Olivet Nazarene University, since the Protestant school in close-by Vermillion County had burned down the previous year.
In 1999, the town was the site of a primary train wreck, the Bourbonnais train accident.
According to the 2010 census, Bourbonnais has a total region of 9.31 square miles (24.11 km2), all land. The initial French pronunciation of Bourbonnais came to be Anglicized over time to /b r bo n s/ b r-boh-n s.
In 1974 a state representative from Bourbonnais introduced a resolution "correcting" the pronunciation of the town's name to /b rb ne / burr-b -nay, closer to the French. In the village, the populace was spread out with 25.5% under the age of 18, 15.5% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the village was $49,329, and the median income for a family was $57,086.
About 5.2% of families and 6.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 3.0% of those age 65 or over.
Bourbonnais shares a high school, Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School (BBCHS), with Bradley, Illinois.
The Kankakee Area Career Center (KACC) serves small-town region high school students as a vocational and technical education institution.
The Chicago Bears of the NFL have held their annual summer training camp at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais since 2002.
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Municipalities and communities of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States
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