Bourbonnais, Illinois

Bourbonnais, United States

Bourbonnais, Illinois shares 21 connections with 2457 other places across 7 topics, rooted in fur trade history, transportation, and religion. The village takes its name from François Bourbonnais, an American Fur Company agent who settled near the Kankakee River around 1830. It later hosted the Chicago Bears training camp from 2002 to 2019 on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University, one of the Church of the Nazarene's larger affiliated universities. Its connections reach Indiana, Chicago, and across the broader Midwest.