2021 Map of Bourbonnais

About this map

The Kankakee River carves a deep valley through this part of Kankakee County, passing notable landmarks like Willow Island and Langham Island as it flows toward the southwest. This area preserves a legacy of early river-oriented settlement and rural burial grounds, including the Maternity Blessed Virgin Mary Cem in the growing community of Bourbonnais and the remote Deselm Cem to the north. Smaller, often overlooked locales such as Flickerville, Altorf, and Deselm occupy the surrounding prairie, connected by a rigid grid of rural routes like W 7000N Rd. North of the river, the landscape is defined by the winding course of Rock Creek, while the southern reaches show the early residential expansion of Bradley and Kankakee moving toward the open fields of Limestone.