2025 Compare Cities Health:
Kankakee, IL vs Decatur, IL

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Highlights
- There are 217 physicians per 100,000 people in Decatur.
- There are 137 physicians per 100,000 people in Kankakee.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 Kankakee, ILDecatur, ILUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock69.458.4
 Water Quality (100=best)60  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock92.186.9
 Physicians per Cap.137  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock103100
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Reviews for Kankakee    5 Reviews

Kankakee was always a blue-collar city. My father had a business, and now I carry it on. That's the only reason I live in Kankakee anymore. Forty years ago, the  More

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Honestly, quite depressing. The people are rude, the place is very unkept - not sure if they have a City Planner or if they really understand the concept. Even the  More

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Moved here from AR 19 months ago. This is the most depressing area I've ever been to and I have been in almost all 50 States - big City and small (this includes all  More

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Reviews for Decatur    14 Reviews

I was sent here by the company I worked for in the '90's and was not initially impressed with midwest living. However, over the years I got used to living in the "Pride  More

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I grew up in Decatur and I still have family there, but it depresses me to see what it has become. It has a high unemployment rate, many business have closed or are run  More

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Over 14 years ago

If you enjoy drinking & driving, Decatur's fifteen drive-thru liquor windows, three times the # of drive-thru's than the ten largest cities in Illinois, COMBINED, will  More

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