About Kankakee Community College

Kankakee Community College (KCC) is a public community educational in Kankakee, Illinois. The main campus is located on the southern be neighboring to of the city of Kankakee and spans 178 acres (0.72 km2) along the banks of the Kankakee River. KCC is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges. The scholastic was founded in 1966. Its president is Michael Boyd.

The hypothetical offered its first classes in September 1968. Since that date, it has served as an educational, vocational, and recreational middle for residents of Community College District 520, an area encompassing all or share of Kankakee, Iroquois, Ford, Grundy, Livingston, and Will counties. The teacher serves a population of nearly 150,000.

Kankakee /ˌkæŋkəˈkiː/ is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The city’s post is probably derived from the Miami-Illinois word teeyaahkiki, meaning: “Open country/exposed land/land in open/land exposed to view”, in suggestion to the area’s prior status as a marsh. As of 2019, the city’s population was 26,024. Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area. It serves as an telecaster city in the rural plains uncovered Chicago, similar to Aurora and Joliet.