Kankakee, IL
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against every other tracked county rather than against fixed national thresholds.
Environmental data for Kankakee in Illinois · Population: 106,833
Kankakee, IL is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 17 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 42 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 50/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 4.5M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 16 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (42)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| AQUA ILLINOIS-KANKAKEE | 80,000 | 4 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-VERMILION COUNTY | 30,106 | 1 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-NORTH MAINE UTILITIES | 30,043 | 2 |
| STEGER | 9,700 | 3 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-UNIVERSITY PARK | 7,002 | 4 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-CANDLEWICK DVN | 6,426 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-OAK BROOK | 5,361 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-WILLOWBROOK | 5,100 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-PEOTONE | 4,182 | 0 |
| MOMENCE | 3,075 | 1 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-HAWTHORN WOODS | 3,065 | 2 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-TIMBER RIDGE | 2,322 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-OAK RUN | 1,885 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-MCHENRY SHORES | 1,862 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-ROCKWELL | 1,762 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-PHILO | 1,378 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-SKYLINE (NORTHERN) | 1,200 | 0 |
| ST ANNE | 1,200 | 1 |
| CHEBANSE | 1,044 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-MOECHERVILLE | 920 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER CO. | 855 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-VILLAGE WOODS | 800 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-EASTWOOD MANOR | 728 | 4 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-IVANHOE | 650 | 1 |
| LAKE SHANNON | 500 | 11 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-NORDIC WOODS | 500 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-SUN RIVER TERRACE | 498 | 1 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-NUNDA | 485 | 1 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-WOODLAWN | 375 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-OAKVIEW | 312 | 1 |
| BUCKINGHAM | 300 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-RAVENNA | 267 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-SKYLINE | 249 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-FAIRHAVEN ESTATES | 225 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-INDIANOLA | 224 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-HIGHLAND ESTATES | 171 | 2 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-SUMMERDALE | 145 | 0 |
| AQUA ILLINOIS-SHERIDAN GROVE | 120 | 0 |
| WINDMILL ESTATES | 65 | 0 |
| SKYVIEW ESTATES | 56 | 1 |
| BARBERRY ACRES MHP | 50 | 0 |
| BEAVER CREEK VILLAGE MHP | 13 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (17)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nucor Steel Kankakee Inc | 1.8M lbs |
| 2 | Crown Beverage Packaging | 1.7M lbs |
| 3 | Csl Behring | 404.0K lbs |
| 4 | Sherwin-Williams Co | 318.5K lbs |
| 5 | Kensing LLC | 156.2K lbs |
| 6 | Ardex | 51.9K lbs |
| 7 | Rohm & Haas Chemicals LLC | 30.4K lbs |
| 8 | Ahf Products | 25.6K lbs |
| 9 | E a Allen Lumber Co | 17.5K lbs |
| 10 | Iko Midwest Inc | 3.8K lbs |
| 11 | American Highway (a Simplex Company) | 160 lbs |
| 12 | Ozinga Ready Mix Concrete Inc. - Manteno | 0 lbs |
| 13 | Sun Chemical Corp | 0 lbs |
| 14 | Cmc Coating Toltec Steel | 0 lbs |
| 15 | Cmc Steel Fabricators Inc DBA Cmc Paving Solutions | 0 lbs |
| 16 | Nucor Grating - Fisher & Ludlow Inc | 0 lbs |
| 17 | Ambassador Steel Fabrication LLC | 0 lbs |
Cities in Kankakee (6)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.