Bourbonnais, Illinois
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| Official name: Village of Bourbonnais | |
| Motto: "Village of Friendship" | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Illinois |
| County | Kankakee |
| Elevation | 660 ft (201.2 m) |
| Coordinates | 41°09′54″N 87°52′43″W / 41.16504°N 87.878486°WCoordinates: 41°09′54″N 87°52′43″W / 41.16504°N 87.878486°W |
| Area | 9.31 sq mi (24.11 km2) |
| - land | 9.31 sq mi (24 km2) |
| - water | 0.00 sq mi (0 km2), 0% |
| Population | 18,631 (2010) |
| Density | 3,302.1/sq mi (1,274.9/km2) |
| Founded | 1875 |
| Timezone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Zip code | 60914 |
| Area code | 815 and 779 |
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| Website: villageofbourbonnais.com | |
Bourbonnais (pronounced /bʊərboʊˈneɪ/ or /bɜːrˈboʊnɪs/) is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,256 at the 2000 census, but had grown to 18,631 in for the 2010 census. It is part of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Chicago–Naperville–Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area.
The village is named after François Bourbonnais, Sr., a fur trapper, hunter and agent of the American Fur Company, who had married a Native American woman and arrived in the area near the fork of two major Indian trails and the Kankakee River circa 1830.John Jacob Astor had founded the company in 1808, and when the United States banned foreign (i.e. British and Canadian companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company) from competing in the country after the War of 1812, it grew. By 1830, it had a near monopoly of fur trading in the midwest, but the number of local trappable wild animals had declined.
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