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39-604: The newspapers were owned by the Small Newspaper Group, located in Kankakee, Illinois , until 2017, when Davenport-based Lee Enterprises bought the paper and its assets. The Argus , founded in Rock Island, is one of Illinois' oldest continuously published newspapers. It can trace its origin to 1851 with the founding of a weekly paper called The Republican . It became Rock Island County's first daily two years later after it

78-526: A Superior Court and Sheriff (as an officer of the court ), both located in a designated "shire town". Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town Manchester , and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington. In 2024, Connecticut , which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending

117-410: A county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in

156-646: A county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of the later years of the Qing dynasty . Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of

195-411: A female householder with no husband present, and 37.4% were non-families. 31.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60, and the average family size was 3.28. In the city, 29.5% of the population was under the age of 18, 9.7% was from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.4%

234-540: A second Midway route to its schedule. In January 2016, a second University Park route was added. County seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is in use in five countries: Canada , China , Hungary , Romania , and the United States . An equivalent term, shire town , is used in the U.S. state of Vermont and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions. In Canada ,

273-568: A total of 2,851 county-level divisions. In Taiwan , the first counties were first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With the increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missionaries in China first romanized

312-634: A weekly total market coverage newspaper called The Leader circulated in Scott County, Iowa , location of Davenport . Distributed on Thursdays, the newspaper contained re-printed content from the Dispatch and Argus , plus exclusive features and hard news stories from Davenport and the Iowa side of the Quad Cities. Kankakee, Illinois Kankakee ( / ˌ k æ ŋ k ə ˈ k iː / KANG -kə- KEE )

351-746: Is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois , United States. Located on the Kankakee River , as of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area . It serves as an anchor city in the rural plains outside Chicago . The city's name is probably derived from a corrupted version of the Miami-Illinois word teeyaahkiki , meaning: "Open country/exposed land/land in open/land exposed to view", in reference to

390-593: Is a section of Middle Township , an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original Thirteen Colonies , county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia . Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Mississippi , Missouri , New Hampshire , New York , and Vermont have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of

429-458: Is plentiful as the district has 13 riverfront parks as well as a 5-acre (2.0 ha) stocked quarry. The city has two softball complexes that have both been inducted into the Softball Hall of Fame. They host annual state and international tournaments drawing nearly 50,000 spectators throughout the year. Some Kankakee youth baseball leagues have won state championships. Kankakee is governed by

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468-688: Is refined at the Kankakee water company, and electricity is generated at the Kankakee River Dam, providing vital resources to the community. Its winding path, including inlets and eddies , creates desirable fishing conditions for outdoor enthusiasts. As of the census of 2000, there were 27,561 people, 10,020 households and 6,272 families residing within the city. The population density was 2,239.8 inhabitants per square mile (864.8/km ). There were 10,965 housing units at an average density of 893.4 units per square mile (344.9 units/km ). The racial makeup of

507-732: Is the major east–west road that bisects the city. The River Valley Metro Mass Transit District (RVMMTD; River Valley Metro or METRO, for short) operates the region's transit bus system. Service runs seven days a week to locations in Kankakee as well as the nearby cities of Aroma Park , Bradley , Bourbonnais , and Manteno . All of the Kankakee routes are stationed out of the Chestnut & North Schuyler Transfer Station. River Valley Metro operates 12 fixed-regular bus routes and 2 commuter routes. The Midway and University Park commuter routes were added January 5, 2014, and in August 2015 River Valley Metro added

546-674: The Kankakee Amtrak Station . Amtrak operates the City of New Orleans , the Illini , and the Saluki with each train running once daily in both directions. Interstate 57 runs east–west in the southern part of the city and turns north–south in the eastern part of Kankakee. United States Highways US 45 and US 52 run concurrently forming, along with Illinois Route IL 50 , the major north–south thoroughfares through Kankakee. Illinois Route IL 17

585-723: The People's Republic of China . Xian have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when

624-539: The Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure; in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of

663-460: The United States , a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government is known as the seat of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in

702-411: The provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in

741-555: The 1990s, the two newspapers' content was virtually identical, the only difference being the mastheads. In 1995 both papers switched from evening to morning publication. Quad-Cities Online has been operated by the papers since 1994. It provides local online news, weather, sports and event information and has grown to include an online auction; QCHomes.com, a service for buying or selling real estate; and opportunities for banner, email and mobile advertising. Lee Enterprises announced on June 19, 2017, that it had reached an agreement with

780-583: The Small Newspaper Group to purchase The Dispatch–Argus and its assets. This made the Dispatch and Argus sister publications to Lee's flagship title, the Quad-City Times , which has long been the major newspaper on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities. While the Dispatch-Argus will maintain a separate editorial voice, it will share a publisher with the Times and Muscatine Journal . From 1986 through 2007,

819-454: The area's prior status as a marsh. Kankakee was founded in 1854. According to the 2010 census, Kankakee has a total area of 14.62 square miles (37.87 km ), of which 14.14 square miles (36.62 km ) (or 96.72%) is land and 0.48 square miles (1.24 km ) (or 3.28%) is water. The Kankakee River runs through Kankakee. It is approximately 133 miles long and serves as a major attraction and defining landmark of Kankakee. The river water

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858-708: The cars of two Argus employees, destroying property and slightly injuring an infant. Five union men were eventually charged with the bombings. The Potters sold the Argus to the Small family in 1986. Issues for years 1862–1922 have been digitized and are available for free online at both the Chronicling America and the University of Illinois Library websites. The first issue of the Moline Daily Evening Dispatch

897-412: The city was 50.92% White , 41.07% African American , 0.27% Native American , 0.32% Asian , 0.03% Pacific Islander , 5.50% from other races , and 1.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 9.25% of the population. There were 10,020 households, out of which 34.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.4% were married couples living together, 21.2% had

936-488: The county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in the United States, followed by Towson , the county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland . Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey , though unincorporated,

975-491: The county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large. A county seat is usually an incorporated municipality . The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia , where

1014-420: The county. Examples include Harrison County, Mississippi , which has both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats, and Hinds County, Mississippi , which has both Raymond and the state capital of Jackson . The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of civic pride for

1053-611: The independent city under an agreement, such as in Albemarle , or may in be enclaves of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in Fairfax . Others, such as Prince William , have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city: Bedford

1092-749: The mayor council system. The city council consists of fourteen members who are elected from seven wards (two per ward). The mayor and city clerk are elected in a citywide vote. Organized in 1966 by a group of citizens, Kankakee Community College was established to provide a post-secondary educational resource for the people of the Kankakee area. Public schools are part of the Kankakee School District 111, which includes five elementary schools (Edison, Mark Twain, Lincoln Cultural Center Montessori, Steuben, and Taft), two middle schools (Kennedy and King), one junior high school (Kankakee Junior High), and one high school ( Kankakee High ), which from 1966 to 1983

1131-603: The newspaper until 1986, when it was bought by the Small Newspaper Group. In November 1932, the Potters bought Rock Island's first radio station, WHBF, later WKBF . Eventually, that station spawned an FM station (now WLKU ) and a television station (still operating under the WHBF-TV calls). In 1953, the International Typographical Union held a strike. After a seven-month strike, on July 9, bombs went off beneath

1170-533: The population were below the poverty line, including 29.3% of those under age 18 and 11.7% aged 65 or over. Library service is provided by the Kankakee Public Library. Kankakee Valley Park District has 37 parks, comprising a total of 600 acres (2.4 km ). Facilities include an indoor ice skating rink, a recreation center, dog park, campground and a 72 boat slip marina on the Kankakee River. Fishing

1209-764: The state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the Lake and Peninsula Borough , has its borough seat located in another borough, namely King Salmon in Bristol Bay Borough . In Louisiana , which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats". In New England , counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. Rhode Island has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and Massachusetts has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In Vermont , Massachusetts , and Maine county government consists only of

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1248-570: The term as hien . When Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. By September 1945, Taiwan was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ), which remained after the Republic of China took over. There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as county-administered cities , urban townships , or rural townships . In most of

1287-416: The towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities. There are 33 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states: Alaska is divided into boroughs rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The Unorganized Borough, Alaska , which covers 49% of

1326-607: The use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the United States Census Bureau to a system of councils of government for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents. Two counties in South Dakota , Oglala Lakota and Todd , have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by Fall River County and Tripp County , respectively. In Virginia ,

1365-425: Was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.2 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 30,469, and the median income for a family was $ 36,428. Males had a median income of $ 30,894 versus $ 22,928 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 15,479. About 18.1% of families and 21.4% of

1404-572: Was produced on July 31, 1878. It was started by Oliver and Louise White, who were publishers of The Molly Stark , a weekly newspaper in Toulon, Illinois . Competition forced them to sell the paper to Patterson S. McGlynn and John K. Groom. In the early to mid-20th century the paper was under the leadership of Harry Sward, Lee R. Blackman and August Sundine. Under Sward's leadership the paper's identity changed from one focused on Moline to Western Illinois and it became The Daily Dispatch . The Daily Dispatch

1443-576: Was purchased by Colonel J.B. Danforth. Because Danforth was a staunch member of the Democratic Party he had the paper's name changed to the Rock Island Argus . The newspaper was purchased by John Potter in 1882 when the paper had 500 subscribers. He died in 1898 and his wife Minnie took over the management of the paper and ran it until her death. In 1925 she had the newspaper plant built on Fourth Avenue in Rock Island. The Potter family operated

1482-475: Was purchased by Len H. Small on February 28, 1969, and the newspaper then started the conversion from the “hot metal” method of composition to computerized photocomposition. The plant was expanded in 1974 and the first Sunday edition of the paper was published on March 14, 1976. From 1986 onward, Small Newspaper Group gradually cut back the local operations of the Argus and consolidated most of its business and editorial operations with those of The Dispatch . By

1521-488: Was two separate high schools, Eastridge and Westview. There are three private high schools: Bishop McNamara Catholic School (Catholic), Grace Christian Academy (non-denominational), and Kankakee Trinity Academy (inter-denominational). Kankakee is served by the Greater Kankakee Airport , a general aviation facility located in the southern portion of Kankakee. Amtrak provides service to Kankakee from

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