St. George, Kankakee County, Illinois Maps |
It has been reported that the St. George, Illinois area was first settled by M. Granger, a farmer from Quebec, Canada. One of the first Catholic parishes was established there in 1848. I have been unable to identify M. Granger at this point, but one of the first settlers in the Bourbonnais area was David Granger, born in 1808, the son of Jean-Baptiste Granger and Marie-Angelique Gregoire. David came to the Bourbonnais area in 1848, also. |
1860 Hand-drawn Plate Map of St. George Village |
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Streets listed in the map include:
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This is a copy of the 1860 plate map of St. George Village, Kankakee County, Illinois drawn from the county maps by my grandmother, Leah Surprenant as student at St. George Academy in 1912. | |
| A 1900 Plate Map of St. George Village |
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| A Current Map of the St. George Village Area |
| This is a current map of the St. George area.
St. George was marked by the red star by the map service, but it is actually more to the left just north of Bradley and Bourbonnais, Illinois. It is along Rural route #1 on St. George Road.
It is surrounded by the communities of Bourbonnais, Bradley, Kankakee and Manteno.
Bourbonnais is the oldest community having been discovered in 1679 by Cavalier de la Salle and founded in about 1832 and named after Francois Bourbonnais, a fur trapper and trader who was deeded land in the area by the Treaty of Tippecanoe in 1833.
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| This is a close up view of St. George, Illinois, which no longer exists as a village, except for the church, which can be reached through this address:
St. George Catholic Church
This detailed map also includes Exline Creek [blue dotted line].
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If you would like cemetery or church record information, please do not contact the church at St. George, but contact instead the Kankakee Valley Genealogical Society at Whether you write a letter for genealogical assistance to the Kankakee or Bourbonnais Libraries, these letters will be directed to the Genealogical Society. Research meetings are held once a month where members of the society will look up information from their publications. For a trip to the library or vital record offices the society requests a donation of $10.00 plus expenses. Inquiries may be sent to KVGS P.O. Box 442, Bourbonnais, Illinois 60914.
Inquiries may also be sent to Research Committee Chair Person, Dorothy Riegel at driegel38@yahoo.com but please include KVGS query in the subject line. | |
