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Rankings for Kankakee

Kankakee Ranked
#14 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Kankakee Ranked
#77 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Kankakee Ranked
#229 Best Green Cities
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Kankakee Ranked
#327 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Decatur

Decatur Ranked
#22 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Decatur Ranked
#59 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Decatur Ranked
#104 2005 Best Places to Live
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Decatur Ranked
#301 Best Green Cities
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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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