Kankakee (Amtrak station)

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Kankakee
Station statistics
Address	199 South East Avenue Kankakee, IL 60901
Lines	City of New Orleans Illini and Saluki
Connections	Kankakee River Valley Mass Transit District Routes 1, 7, & 8
Other information
Opened	1898
Code	KKI
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	12,088 ▲ 38.7%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Champaign-Urbana toward New Orleans City of New Orleans Homewood toward Chicago Gilman toward Carbondale Illini and Saluki Illinois Central Railroad Depot U.S. National Register of Historic Places Map of the United States Location: Kankakee, Illinois, USA Built/Founded: 1898 Added to NRHP: 2000 NRHP Reference#: #00000409

The Kankakee Amtrak station is a train station in Kankakee, Illinois, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station was built in 1898 as an Illinois Central Railroad Depot, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since the year 2000.^[1] The Northern end of the station is also the home of the Kankakee Railroad Museum.

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• Amtrak - Stations - Kankakee, IL

• Ridership figures, FY 2004
• Ridership figures, FY 2005
• Ridership figures, FY 2006
• Ridership figures, FY 2007

• Kankakee Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)