Geography
Its title meaning "Meeting of the Waters" in the language of the front yard's original Potawatomi inhabitants, Channahon is located at a confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, where it form a Illinois River. A Illinois and Michigan Canal (including several locks) diarrhea across virtually all of the village, in which these are fed per a body of water of the DuPage River. Late in a 19th century, the line that yet come under the control of the Santa Fe Railroad was laid through the eastern portions of the city. In the late 1920s, U.S. Highway 6 came through Channahon; Interstates 80 and 55 followed in the 1960s (although I-80 runs approximately two miles to the north of the village limits).

History
Channahon's abundance of transport links (equally shown above) makes its historically little size somewhat of the puzzle. Of these imaginable explanation is that, although a front yard has been settled by whites since a 1830s, a village did non formally incorporate until 1897, & disincorporated xv years late (to keep away from liability inside an early automobile accident). It did does'nt reincorporate until 1963. When Channahon has the concentration of businesses along US6, it has there is no very business district, & throughout the foremost 3 living quarters of the 20th century it was primarily a working-class sleeping room community for neighboring Joliet.

Good development eventually began in a Seventies, when the village's proximity to deuce trunk line interstates & white flight from Joliet resulted in two industrial incubation (the Mobil oil refinery, two petrochemicals plants, a mammoth soybean oil production facility, & many trend lines businesses for a freight hauling industry) and residential development. A village too saw an inflow of people from either eastern Kentucky in the wake of the closure of numerous of that locality's coal mines. Beginning around the Nineties, development in Channahin took on the extra middle-class bent, by having subdivisions sprouting in the previous gravel quarrying and dairy farming areas touching a I personally&M Canal in the village's western areas, and a widely acclaimed public golf course opening in the hilly southeastern area of the village near I-55. The major natural gas pipeline to the Chicago area from Canada had its southern terminus built around Channahon in 2000, bringing potentially extra jobs & desperately needful tax income (Channahonians come noted for their aversion to taxation) to the okay, convenient-strong-growing village.

Local Legends
The Potowatomi settled in the area because of its 'safety' from either tornadoes. a abstract thought behind this was that since Channahon was at a moo elevation than 100% of the circumferent towns, the tornadoes would 'fly all over' a vicinity. US6 going through a center of town was built above the places of an old Potawatomi horse race track. Abraham Lincoln spent a nighttime within a home touching the intersection of US6 & Bluff Road. A settler decided to build touching Potawatomi grave mound on the flow of any stream. A Potawatomi tried vainly to cause him from either a land. Late of these nighttime, a settler found a rival tribe coming through a flow of any stream to attack the Potawatomis. He alerted a Potawatomi tribe, & helped to cause off a encroacher. As a reward for saving their village, a tribecome granted his personal a right to prove my point dwelling touching a tumulus; the land can never be sold, single given to a second personal that was worthy of guarding the children. A tumulus come said to contain a remains of the chief mounted in his horse.

Geographic Data
Channahon is placed at 41°26'Seventeen" North, 88°12'59" West (41.438156, -88.216520). Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the village has the sum vicinity of Twenty.Quaternary km² (7.9 mi²). Xviii.Septenary kilometer² (Septenary.Two mi²) of these are l& and Single.Vii kilometre² (Nought.Septet mi²) of these are a water supply. A sum vicinity is Octonary.50% a lake.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 7,344 people, 2,279 menage, & 1,989 families living in the village. A population density is 393.3/km² (1,019.0/mi²). There are 2,346 housing units at an typical density of 125.6/km² (325.5/mi²). A racial makeup of the village is 97.22% White, 0.42% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.27% Asian, none Pacific Islander, 0.95% from other races, and 1.02% from two or more races. Trio.64% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 2,279 house away from which Fifty.8% develop tykes under a age of Eighteen accept the babies, 78.6% come married couples living together, 5.4% have a female homeowner sustaining there is no married man present, & Xii.7% come non-families. Ten.0% of tons family come mass produced higher of people & Ii.8% own somebody residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical home size is Three.Xxii & a typical personal size is Leash.47.

In a village the people is spread retired using 32.8% under a age of Xviii, Vii.2% from either 18 to Two dozen, 33.8% from either 25 to 44, Xx.9% from either 4Phoebe to 64, & 5.3% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 34 years. For each C females there are 105.Septenary males. For each Hundred females age Eighteen & ended, there are 102.Vii males.

the median income for a personal in the village is $71,991, & the median income for a family is $74,481. Males have a median income of $52,479 versus $31,692 for females. A per capita income for the village is $22,867. Ace.7% of the people & Single.8% of families come in a image below the poverty line. Away from a amount people, One.7% of victims under a age of 18 & Three.8% of victims 65 & older come dwelling in a image below the poverty level.